Bob Dylan Quotes (93 Quotes)


    I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

    ... You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

    Come you masters of warYou that build all the gunsYou that build the death planesYou that build the big bombsYou that hide behind wallsYou that hide behind desksI just want you to knowI can see through your masks

    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.

    Some people have no hope, some people want to be like you, you know Best to be yourself


    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.

    Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

    In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.

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

    She takes just like a woman, yes, she does She makes love just like a woman, yes she does And she aches just like a woman But she breaks just like a little girl.

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


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

    Twenty years of schoolin' And they put you on the day shift.

    But I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.

    She knows there's no success like failure And that failure's no success at all.


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

    A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

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

    I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down So I came down. God said, Okay, you've been up on the mountain, now you go down. You're on your own, free. Check in later, but now you're on your own.

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

    Neil Young's lyrics from his 1988 hit This Notes For You ... The Times They Are A Changing.

    There is nothing so stable as change.

    God said, Abraham Kill me your son. Abe said, Man you must be puttin' me on. God said No, and Abe said What God said, You can do what you want, Abe, but next time you see Me comin' man, you better run. Abe said, Where you want this killin' done God said, Out on Highway Sixty-One.

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

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

    Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.

    Don't follow leaders, watch your parkin' meters.

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

    Happy; Anyone can be happy. What purpose does that serve.

    It rubs me the wrong way, a camera... It's a frightening thing...Cameras make ghosts out of people.

    You're basically putting it out through a corporation regardless . . . How you get it out is really immaterial.

    I cannot rhyme or play guitar, piano and am not very much interested in doing any of these.

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

    Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's pollution.

    I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes and just for that one moment I could be you. Yes, I wish that for just one time You could stand inside my shoes You'd know what a drag it is to see you.

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

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

    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.

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

    How many times can a man turn his head and pretend he just doesn't see

    A self-ordained professors tongue, too serious to fool ...

    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.

    In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

    I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.

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

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

    To live outside the law, you must be honest.

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


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