Quotes by Bob Dylan

• Money doesn't talk, it swears.
• Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.
• In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
• In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.
• If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.
• I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.
• I'm speaking for all of us. I'm the spokesman for a generation.
• No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.
• I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.
• There is nothing so stable as change.
• I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.
• A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
• People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
• People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
• I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.
• The radio makes hideous sounds.
• I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
• This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.
• To live outside the law, you must be honest.
• Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.
• What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.
• What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
• When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?
• Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.
• Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.
• All I can do is be me, whoever that is.
• 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.
• A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
• A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
• A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
• I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon.
• A song is anything that can walk by itself.
• I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.
• All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
• All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
• At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.
• Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
• Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.
• I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.
• But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.
• Chaos is a friend of mine.
• Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
• Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.
• Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.
• He not busy being born is busy dying.
• I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.
• 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.
• I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.
• I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
• I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.
• Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere.
• A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.