Bob Dylan Quotes

When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose.

It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry

It's not easy to define poetry.

Everybody's wearing a disguise, to hide what they've got left behind their eyes.

I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams.

They asked me for some collateral and I pulled down my pants.

I’m in awe of McCartney. He’s about the only one that I am in awe of. He can do it all. And he’s never let up... He’s just so damn effortless.

God got the power, man has got his vanity. Man gotta choose before God can set him free.

I find C major to be the key of strength, but also the key of regret. E major is the key of confidence. A-flat major is the key of renunciation.

Draft beer, not people.

Freedom just around the corner for you, but with the truth so far off, what good will it do?

Aretha with no goals, eternally single & one step soft of heaven/ let it be understood that she owns this melody along with her emotional diplomats & her earth & her musical secrets

The warrior who's strength is not to fight.

The only person you have to think about lying twice to is either yourself or to God. The press isn't either of them. And I just figured they're irrelevant.

There's danger in this open world where men strive to be free, and to me the greatest danger was in society.

I'm determined to stand whether God will deliver me or not.

In harmony with cosmic sea, true love needs no company. It can cure the soul, it can make it whole, if dogs run free.

Shadows are falling and I've been here all day/It's too hot to sleep, time is running away/Feel like my soul has turned into steel/I've still got the scars that the sun didn't heal.

Abe said, where do you want this killing done? God said, out on highway 61.

There are no truths outside the Gates of Eden.

Walkin' through the leaves fallin' from the trees, Feelin' like a stranger nobody sees.

One who sings with his tongue on fire, gargles in the rat race choir.

I bargained for salvation and they gave me a lethal dose.

If God is on our side, he'll stop the next war.

Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.

When somethin's not right it's wrong.

Mothers tell your children not to do the things I have done, to spend my life in sin and misery in the House of the Rising Sun.

Even I don't know what I'm saying most of the time.

Everything that I'm saying You can say it just as good

Pain sure does bring out the best in people, doesn't it?

Money doesn't exist because I don't recognize it.

Fearing not that I'd become my enemy In the instant that I preach

A noble truth is a sacred creed.

Good intentions can be evil, both hands are full of grease. You know, sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.

I thought that he was righteous, but he's vain. Oh, somethings a telling me I wear the ball and chain.

Just a reminder, if you tell anyone about what happened with Jonah last night, I'll destroy all of my writing and never play music again.

I was never a topical songwriter.

Ah, current music. What would that be? Ah, really, a lot of it sounds defective to me. It makes me restless.

"Like a Rolling Stone" [of Bob Dylan] is a kiss-off song like none before or since.

An artist is always in the state of becoming.

Who am I helping, what am I breaking, what am I giving, what am I taking?

Stay free of petty jealousies, live by no man's code, and hold your judgment for yourself, lest you wind up on this road.

It rubs me the wrong way, a camera... It's a frightening thing...Cameras make ghosts out of people.

Well the book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers.

If you can't lend a hand, then get out of the way.

Every day is the same thing out the door Feel further away then ever before Some things in life, it gets too late to learn Well, I'm lost somewhere I must have made a few bad turns

They said, congratulations you got what it takes. They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes.

I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children.

Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth. None of them along the line know what any of it is worth.

People tell me it's a sin, to know and feel too much within.