Bob Dylan Quotes

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?

Jesus, that ear. He should donate it to The Smithsonian. Brian Wilson, he made all his records with four tracks, but you couldn't make his records if you had a hundred tracks today.

I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.

How many roads must a man walk down.. Before you can call him a Man.

Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work.

Watch waterfalls of pity roar, you feel to moan but unlike before, you discover that you'd just be one more person crying.

You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.

People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.

There's beauty in the silver singing river There's beauty in the sunrise in the sky But none of these and nothing else can match the beauty That I remember in my true love's eyes

Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.

If you need somebody you can trust, trust yourself

Lord knows I've paid my dues getting through, tangled up in blue.

You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist, and 'load every rift' of your subject with ore.

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.

You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

If I lived my life by what others were thinkin', the heart inside me would've died.

Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong, may you stay forever young.

You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way.

There is nothing so stable as change.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

No reason to get excited,' the thief, he kindly spoke, There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.

Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than those who are most content.

Sometimes the silence can be like thunder.

I've always been the kind of person that doesn't like to trespass, but sometimes you just find yourself over the line.

I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

Life has its ups and downs, and time has to be your partner. Really, time is your soul mate.

You can't be wise and in love at the same time.

Steal a little and they throw you in jail Steal a lot and they make you king.

It's not important what other people call you. If you yourself know you're a fake, that's tougher to live with.

If I had rubies, riches, and crowns, I'd buy the whole world and change things around.

Your mind is a your temple, keep it beautiful and free. Don't let an egg get laid in it by something you can't see.

May you have a strong foundation when the winds of change shift...and may you be forever young.

All the money you made will never buy back your soul.

Dealing with my own life takes priority over other people dealing with my life.

If you want to know how to please a woman, just talk to a neuroscience major from Columbia.