Bob Dylan Quotes (93 Quotes)

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

The radio makes hideous sounds.

Of all the versions of my recorded songs, the Johnny Rivers one was my favorite. It was obvious we were from the same side of town . . . the same musical family and were cut from the same cloth. I liked his version (of 'Positively 4th Street) better than mine.

He's written extraordinary songs, hasn't he I consider him one of the preeminent songwriters of the times. Every song he does has a vitality you don't find everywhere.

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.

Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon -but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx -the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right

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

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

Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land And don't criticize What you can't understand.

Blonde on Blonde.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.

It was relatively simple. Bob put himself in my hands. He just turned up - just his words on paper - no instruments, no musicians, no preconceptions. He just turned up on the doorstep and I built the studio. It's what I call a kitchen studio, so we played in the kitchen. I knew it would suit Bob because I knew Bob didn't have a lot of time for the studio. He didn't want people standing around scratching their heads, banging pianos or whatever. I sat down next to him, put a guitar in his hand and off we went.

Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me I said, I'm not resisting you He said, You gonna follow me I said, I've never thought about that before He said, When you're not following me, you're resisting me.

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

For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.

The times they are a changin.

Johnny's in the basement, mixin' up the medicine...I'm on the pavement, thinkin' about the government.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

I'm speaking for all of us. I'm the spokesman for a generation.

a giant, a great, great soul, with all of the humanity, all of the wit and humor, all the wisdom, the spirituality, the common sense of a man and compassion for people.

May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young.

There's beauty in the silver singing river, There's beauty in the sunrise in the sky, But none of these and nothing else can match the beauty, That I remember in my true love's eyes.

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

Chaos is a friend of mine.

Businessmen they drink my wine, Plowmen dig my earth, But none of them along the line, Know what any of it is worth

She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.

When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks.

Oh, the streets of Rome are filled with rubble,Ancient footprints are everywhere.You can almost think that youre seein doubleOn a cold dark night on the Spanish stairs...

Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola

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.

We never thought we could ever get old.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

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.

In writing songs I've learned as much from C.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Blame it on a simple twist of fate.

I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.