Bob Dylan Quotes
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Bob Dylan
(Interview, 1985)
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
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.
He not busy being born is busy dying.
Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.
I've been trying to get as far away from myself as I can.
When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose. You're invisible now. You've got no secrets to conceal.
Chaos is a friend of mine.
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 future to me is already a thing of the past.
Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.
No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.
How many seas must a white dove sail before she sleeps in the sand?
May you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung. May your song always be sung, May you stay forever young.
We may not be able to defeat these swine, but we don't have to join them.
Democracy don't rule the world,
Bob Dylan
You'd better get that in your head.
This world is ruled by violence
But I guess that's better left unsaid.
(Infidels, 1983)
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.
There is nothing so stable as change.
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man?
People don't do what they believe in, they just do what's most convenient, then they repent.
Behind every beautiful thing there's been some kind of pain.
If your time to you is worth savin’
Then you better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’.
I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.
Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.
Oh, the tree of life is growing where the spirit never dies
And the bright light of salvation shines in dark and empty skies.
All I can do is be me, whoever that is.
Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.
A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
