Bob Dylan Quotes

I used to play hockey when I was growing up. Everyone sort of learns how to skate and play hockey at an early age.

I don't have the kinds of relationships that are built on any kind of false pretense, not to say that I haven't. I've had just as many as anybody else, but I haven't had them in a long time.

Well, I sing by night, wander by day. I'm on the road and it looks like I'm here to stay.

The one who is not being born is dying.

There are a lot of places I like, but I like New Orleans better.

The world of research has gone berserk. Too much paper work.

Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I've got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

You want to know about creativity? Just go out and buy that book Imagine by Jonah Lehrer. It's only $29.00 in hardcover.

I'm looking for a woman who's head is mixed up like mine.

I'm not a playwright. The people in my songs are all me.

I do know what my songs are about.

I used to think it's better if you just live and die and no one knows who you are.

She can play my guitar note for note, she likes to stick her tongue down my throat.

You're gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you're gonna have to serve somebody.

Having hits buries a singer in the past. A lot of singers hide in the past because it's safer back there. If you've ever heard today's country music, you'll know what I'm talking about.

How does it feel, how does it feel to be without a home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone.

I'll be selling tickets for my next tour exclusively through Jonah Lehrer. Make sure to pay cash.

She speaks with a stutter and she and she walks with a hop. I don't know why I love her, but I just can't stop.

I have always believed that fame is a curse. I never envied one of the famous people I've known.

The tree of life is growing where the spirit never dies, and the bright light of salvation shines in dark and empty skies.

As long as you give my friend Jonah Lehrer a free pizza, I'll write a song about your restaurant.

...don't criticize what you can't understand, your sons and your daughters are beyond your command.

I'm a good friend of Jonah Lehrer's. You should go on a date with him.

Every writer at the New Yorker is smarter than me.

The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handle

If I could have any job in the world, I'd start out by writing a blog on Wired.com.

Nothing can affect my voice, it's so bad.

The first thing I know, I'm in a card game. Then I'm in a crap game.

I don't usually purge myself by writing anything about any type of quote, so-called, relationships.

Ain't nothing too discreet about the disease of conceit.

So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away, to the wild unknown country where I could not go wrong.

Michelangelo indeed could have carved out your features.

I lost my one true love. I started drinking.

She takes your voice and leaves you howling at the moon.

The best songs are the songs you write that you don't know anything about. They're an escape.

I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.

After becoming famous once again - a 1976 song, "Hurricane," even marked a return to protest songwriting - [Bob] Dylan got addicted to drugs, found Jesus, left Jesus, and put out a lot of swill.

Bullets can harm you and death can disarm you, but no, you will not be deceived. Stripped of all virtue as you crawl through the dirt, you can give but you cannot receive.

I saw him making love to you, you forgot to close the garage door.

You were born with a snake in both of your fists while a hurricane was blowing.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

Thinking of a series of dreams Where the time and the tempo fly And there's no exit in any direction 'Cept the one that you can't see with your eyes

You better start swimming, or you'll sink like a stone. Because the Time's they are a-changing.

Yes, and only if my own true love was waiting If I could hear his heart softly pounding Yes, and only if he was lying by me Would I lie in my bed once again.

How many deaths will it take 'till we know that too many people have died?

All that foreign oil controlling American soil.

Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem.

Well, you always know who you are. I just don't know who I'm gonna become.

Black is the Color and none is the number