Bob Dylan Quotes

Why Nicolas Sarkozy is the head of France, [he is] warm and extremely likeable.

Once I went into songwriting, I figured I had to - I couldn't be a hellfire rock 'n' roller. But I could write hellfire lyrics.

I have tried my hand at bribery, blackmail, and deceit. And I've served time for everything, cept beggin on the street.

Hold it, Doc, a world war passed through my brain. He said, Nurse, get your pad, this boy's insane.

She makes love just like a woman.

I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

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".

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

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.

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.

Once you think you know the song, then you have go and see how other people have done it.

My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip, my toes to numb to step, wait only for my boot heels to be wandering.

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.

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

Get jailed, jump bail, join the Army if you fail.

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

All these people that I used to know, they're an illusion to me now. Some are mathematicians, some are carpenters' wives.

In the valley of the giants where the stars and stripes explode, the peaches they were sweet and the milk and honey flowed.

You can have your youth It'll rot before your eyes

You say love is just a four letter word.

The answer is blowin' in the wind.

One was Texas medicine, the other was just railroad gin, and like a fool I mixed them.

I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now. From the back pages

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

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

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

I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul.

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.

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

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

If you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.

New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.

People's lives are filled with vice and the trappings of it. Ambition, greed and selfishness all have to do with vice. Sooner or later, you have to see through it or you don't survive.

The real power is in the hands of small groups of people and I don't think they have titles.

Art can lead you to God. I think that's the purpose of everything. If it's not doing that, what's it doing? It's leading you the other way. It's certainly not leading you nowhere.

I don't really have a retirement plan.

Some things are too terrible to be true.

I'm not going to read any of these magazines. I mean, because they've just got too much to lose by printing the truth. You know that.

I took her by the hand and my heart it was thumpin'. When she said, hey man, you crazy or somethin'?

Every day your memory grows dimmer - it doesn't haunt me like it did before.

For them that must obey authority/That they do not respect in any degree/Who despise their jobs, their destinies/Speak jealously of them that are free

He hands you a nickel, he hands you a dime. He asks you with a grin, if you're having a good time.

I just try to understand that tomorrow is another day.