Bob Dylan Quotes

The enemy is subtle, how be it we are so deceived, when truth's in our hearts and we still don't believe.

You had no faith to lose and you know it.

Is your money that good, will it buy you forgiveness?

Who Killed Davey Moore? Why and what's the reason for?

I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans.

We never thought we could ever get old.

Art is a never-ending dance of illusions.

I've never gone for having a great voice, for cultivating one. I'm still not doing it now.

A song is like a dream, and you try to make it come true. They're like strange countries that you have to enter.

You must be vulnerable to be sensitive to reality. And to be vulnerable is just another way of saying that one has nothing more to lose. I don't have anything but darkness to lose.

It's east to see without lookin' too far that not much is really sacred.

If I made records for my own pleasure, I would only record Charley Patton songs.

I didn't come out of a cereal box.

There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate, so let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.

I like Fidel Castro and his beard.

The sun's not yellow, its chicken!

Peace will come With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall.

Situations have ended sad, Relationships have all been bad.

There doesn't seem to be any tomorrow. Every time I wake up, no matter in what position, it's always been today.

In this age of fiberglass, I'm searching for a gem.

The hollow horn plays wasted words, proves to warn that he not busy being born is busy dying.

Upon four-legged forest clouds the cowboy angel rides

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young.

Disillusioned words like bullets bark as human gods aim for their mark.

I was down in the sewer with some little lover.

I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come.

My favorite politician was Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, who reminded me of Tom Mix, and there wasn't any way to explain that to anybody.

You can't be happy by doing something groovy.

I heard the tongues of angels and the tongues of men and it all sounded no different to me.

Trying to create a next world war, he found a promoter who nearly fell off the floor, he said I never engaged in this kind of thing before, but yes I think it can be very easily done.

The times are a-changing and if we don't we will sink like a stone.

You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

How many times have you heard someone say If I had his money I'd do things my way Hmm, but little they know Hmm, it's so hard to find One rich man in ten with a satisfied mind.

Johnny's in the basement Mixing up the medicine I'm on the pavement Thinking 'bout the government.

I love Country Music but what happened to it?

I gotta friend who spends his life, stabbing my picture with a bowie knife. Dreams of strangling me with a scarf, when my name comes up he pretends to barf.

Back seat drivers don’t know the feel of the wheel but they sho’ know how to make a fuss" Bob Dylan/Bonnie Raitt, “Let’s Keep It Between Us,” 1982

Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.

I see through your brain like I see through the water that runs down the drain.

Well the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount, But nothing really matters much it's doom alone that counts.

Feel like a broke-down engine, ain't got no drivin' wheel. You all been down and lonesome, you know just how a poor man feels.

And I'll know my song well before I start singing

Nothing is better, nothing is best, take heed of this and get plenty of rest.

Don't put my faith in nobody, not even a scientist.

If you choose to live outside the law, you must obey the law more stringently than anyone.

Any real Bob Dylan fan would sleep with Jonah Lehrer.

I think I have a dualistic nature.

You can't do something forever.

Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you.

Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.