Bob Dylan Quotes

It's mighty funny. The end of time has just begun.

They say every man needs protection They say every man must fall So, I swear I see my reflection Somewhere inside these walls... I shall be released.

We don't see the people that vice destroys. We just see the glamour of it - everywhere we look, from billboard signs to movies, to newspapers, to magazines. We see the destruction of human life.

I'm sick of giving creeps money off my soul.

Too much information about nothing.

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free.

Charity is suppose to cover up for a multitude of sins.

Gonna change my way of thinking, make my self a different set of rules. Gonna put my good foot forward and stop being influenced by fools.

I'm not a folk-singer. I just sing a certain place.

Opportunities may come along for you to convert something - something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning of it.

your problem is that wanna better word for world

My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited poems with jazz bands.

She's a hypnotist collector; you are a walking antique.

If I had wings, no one would ask me: should I fly?

I'll always thank the Lord when my working day is through, I get my sweet reward to be alone with you.

I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul.

The government's not going to create jobs. It doesn't have to. People have to create jobs.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

I ain't saying you treated me unkind you could've done better, but I don't mind. You just kinda wasted my precious time. But don't think twice, it's alright.

I'm speaking for all of us. I'm the spokesman for a generation.

Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that's going on right now in a big way.

If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.

In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.

I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon.

I'm mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it's the only place where I'm happy.

[Bob Dylan] was rarely tender and seldom reached out to anticipate another's needs.

There were only a few seats left in coach and Bob found himself seated next to a young female fan. 'I can't believe I'm sitting next to Bob Dylan!' she screamed.'Pinch yourself,' said Bob."

Bob Dylan was again an entirely new person - this time old, craggy, cynical, and world-weary, as in "Not Dark Yet".

I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something.

It's like going out to the desert and screaming and then having little kids throw their sandbox at you. I'm only 24.

The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie. Then you're all the time defending what you can never justify.

Romance never does go out of fashion. It's radical. But it's out of step with the current media culture.

You could listen to Woody Guthrie songs and actually learn how to live.

There are degrees of happiness. You go from one to the other and then back again. It's hard to be completely happy when those around us are suffering and groaning from hunger.

Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride/ You will not die, its not poison -Tombstone Blues

Let me feel your love one more time before I abandon it.

Got no religion. Tried a bunch of different religions. The churches are divided. Can't make up their minds and neither can I.

He's hell bent for destruction, he's afraid and confused, and his brain has been mismanaged with great skill.

The land of milk and honey, they say it is the land of money.

I always thought the best kind of sunglasses are the motorcycle helmets with the black plastic masks on them. That way, nobody can recognize the back of your head either.

...how many times must the cannon balls fly Before they're forever banned?

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

I'm gonna spare the defeated. I'm gonna tame the proud.

Can you please crawl out your window? Use your arms and your legs, it won't ruin you

People do whatever they want to do, y'know.

An artist has got to be constantly in a state of becoming.

The truth was obscure, Too profound and too pure, To live it you had to explode

I never wanted to be a prophet or a saviour. Elvis maybe