Bob Dylan Quotes

40 quotations by Bob Dylan

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.

What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

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.

The radio makes hideous sounds.

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

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

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

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.

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.

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

I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

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

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

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 accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.

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.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere.

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

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

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.

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.

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

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 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 hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.