Bob Dylan Quotes

The Duke [John Wayne] was a massive figure. He looked like a heavy piece of hauled lumber, and it didn't seem like any man could stand shoulder to shoulder with him.

Come Senators, Congressman, please heed the call, don't stand in the doorway, don't block the hall.

It's not a house, it's a home.

The more you act the further you get away from the truth.

Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise.

To preach of peace and brotherhood, oh what might be the cost? A man he did it long ago, and they hung him on a cross.

In the home of the brave, Jefferson turning over in his grave.

You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future.

For the loser now Will be later to win

If not for you, winter wouldn't hold no spring, couldn't hear a robin sing. I just wouldn't have a clue, if not for you.

You swore you'd never compromise With the mystery tramp, but now you realise He's not selling any alibis As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes And say, do you want to make a deal How does it feel

You’re a cow Give me some milk Or else go home

Everything from toy guns that spark To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark It's easy to see without looking too far That not much is really sacred.

Don't follow leaders, watch your parkin' meters.

You will find God in the church of your choice.

You five and ten cent women with nothing in your heads, I got a real gal I'm loving and Lord I'll love her 'til I'm dead.

Without freedom of speech, I might be in the swamp

If you ever tell anyone about Jonah's sexual dysfunction, I'll never play music again.

On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game.

Some are masters of illusions, some are ministers of trade, all under the same delusion, all their beds unmade.

I'm a liberal to a degree, I want everybody to be free. But if you think that I'll let Barry Goldwater move in next door.

Maybe someday you will understand, that something for nothing is everybody's plan.

The executioner's face is always well hidden.

Everything in New Orleans is a good idea.

When you think that you lost everything you find out you can always lose a little more.

When you got nothin' / You got nothin' to lose.

Oh, time is short and the days are sweet and passion rules the arrow that flies.

Well, it's always been my nature to take chances My right hand drawing back while my left hand advances

Mama's in the factory, she ain't got no shoes. Daddy's in the alley, he's looking for food.

They're selling postcards of the hanging.

Idiot wind, blowing every time you open your mouth.

There is a house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun, and it's been the ruin of many a poor boy and God I know I'm one.

Don't think twice, it's alright.

If I had the stars from the darkest night and the diamonds from the deepest ocean, I'd forsake them all for your sweet kiss, for that's all I'm wishin' to be ownin'.

Life is sad, life is a bust, all you can do is do what you must.

Since my feet are now fast and point away from the past, I'll bid farewell and be down the line.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

Anger and jealousy's all that he sells us, he's content when you're under his thumb. Madmen oppose him, but your kindness throws him, to survive it you play deaf and dumb.

A lot of people don't have much food on their table. But they got a lot of forks 'n knives. And they got to cut somethin'.

It's not dark yet But it's getting there

I can't see my reflection in the waters, I can't speak the sounds that show no pain. I can't hear the echo of my footsteps, or can't remember the sound of my own name.

Crimson flames tied through my ears rolling high and mighty traps, pounced with fire on flaming roads using ideas as my maps.

Good and bad, I define these terms, quite clear, no doubt, somehow.

A million faces at my feet but all I see are dark eyes.

She never stumbles, she's got no place to fall. She's nobody's child, the law can't touch her at all.

When you're sad and when you're lonely and you haven't got a friend, just remember that death is not the end.

When you got nothing, you got nothin' to lose You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.

His [Bob Dylan] humour was dry and splendid.

Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want (Bob Dylan's dad)

If you're looking to get silly, you better go back to from where you came. because the cops don't need you and man they expect the same.