Bob Dylan Quotes

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

Broken bottles, broken plates, broken switches, broken gates. Broken dishes, broken parts, streets are filled with broken hearts.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

When the jelly faced women all sneeze, hear the one with the mustache say I can't find my knees.

Don't forget to support your public library.

A lot of people from the press want to talk to me, but they never do.

The radio makes hideous sounds.

You'll find out when you reach the top, you're on the bottom.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles.

"Subterranean Homesick Blues" [of Bob Dylan] captures, in word-salad format, life in an encroaching police state.

It goes back to the destiny thing.I made a bargain with it, you know, a long time ago. And I'm holding up my end.

I've been sitting down studying the Art of Love. I think it will fit me like a glove.

I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible.

I like spiritual songs. They struck me as truthful and serious. They brought me down to earth and they lifted me up all in the same moment.

I wouldn't even think of playing music if I was born in these times. I wouldn't even listen to the radio.

The battle outside raging will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.

The motorcycle black madonna Two wheeled gypsy queen.

Done so many evil things in the name of love, it's a crying shame. I never did see no fire that could put out a flame.

Done laid around, done stayed around This old town too long And it seems like I've got to travel on

A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.

Bob has never written a bad song. Bob Dylan is a genius.

Well now what's the use in dreamin' You got better things to do Dreams never did work for me anyway Even when they did come true

City's just a jungle; more games to play Trapped in the heart of it, tryin' to get away I was raised in the country, I been workin' in the town I been in trouble ever since I set my suitcase down

Never make it perfect.

You always got to be prepared but you never know for what.

Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?

May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung.

Well, I try my best to be just like I am, But everybody wants you to be just like them, They sing while you slave and I just get bored

Your eyes are like two jewels in the sky.

I make my stand and remain as I am, and bid farewell and not give a damn.

Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way.

I made a bargain with him, the chief in a world we can't see. (devil)

Time is an ocean, but it ends at the shore.

Either I'm too sensitive, or else I'm gettin' soft

God bless you all with peace, tranquility and good will.

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.

If you don't underestimate me, I won't underestimate you.

I don't think I'm tangible to myself.

One should never be where one does not belong.

Every cause that ever I fought, I fought it full without regret or shame.

I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.

Every brain is civilized, Every nerve is analyzed, Everything is criticized when you are in need.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land where justice is a game.

There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.

Every step of the way we walk the line Your days are numbered, so are mine Time is pilin' up, we struggle and we scrape We're all boxed in, nowhere to escape

Somebody had to be Bob Dylan. I guess I was best equipped to do the job.