Top 72 Bob Dylan Quotes



The future for me is already a thing of the past -You were my first love and you will be my last

 

You can never be wise and be in love at the same time.

 

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that’s exactly the way we want it to be.

 

It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be…

 

You better start swimming, or you’ll sink like a stone. Because the Time’s they are a-changing.

 

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

 

I failed to communicate, that’s why I chose to leave

 

Even if you don’t have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don’t have that you don’t want (Bob Dylan’s dad)

 

There’s only one day at a time here, then it’s tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.

 

They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.

 

Technology to wipe out truth is now available. Not everybody can afford it but it’s available. When the cost comes down, look out!

 

You’re gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you’re gonna have to serve somebody…

 

Sometimes it’s not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don’t mean.

 

I had no time for romance. I turned away from the window, from the wintry sun, crossed through the room, went to the stove and made and poured myself a cup of hot chocolate and then clicked on the radio

 

People tell me it’s a sinTo know and feel too much within

 

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.

 

Act the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you’d like to act.

 

Ah, but I was so much older thenI’m younger than that now

 

I can see God in a daisy. I can see God at night in the wind and rain. I see Creation just about everywhere. The highest form of song is prayer. King David’s, Solomon’s, the wailing of a coyote, the rumble of the Earth.

 

Let me ask you one questionIs your money that goodWill it buy you forgivenessDo you think that it couldI think you will findWhen your death takes its tollAll the money you madeWill never buy back your soul

 

I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.

 

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

 

If you’re looking to get silly, you better go back to from where you came. because the cops don’t need you and man they expect the same.

 

The line it is drawnThe curse it is castThe slow one nowWill later be fastAs the present nowWill later be pastThe new order isRapidly fadin’.And the first one nowWill later be lastFor the times they are a-changin’.

 

Behind every beautiful thing, there’s some kind of pain.

 

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

 

And I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

 

When you’ve got nothing, you’ve got nothing to loose.

 

Thinking of a series of dreamsWhere the time and the tempo flyAnd there’s no exit in any direction’Cept the one that you can’t see with your eyes

 

There must be some kind of way out of here,’ said the joker to the thief…

 

When Johnson started singing, he seemed like a guy who could have sprung from the head of Zeus in full armor.

 

She’s got everything she needs; she’s an artist, she don’t look back.

 

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

 

Inside the museums, | Infinity goes up on trial | Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while

 

What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not threatening – all bunk. No guarantees of anything, not even the guarantee that life isn’t one big joke.

 

Yet there’s no one to beat you | No one t’ defeat you | ’Cept the thoughts of yourself feeling bad

 

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it’s like they didn’t fade away at all.

 

And if you don’t underestimate me, I won’t underestimate you.

 

People are crazy and times are strangeI’m locked in tight, I’m out of rangeI used to care, but things have changed

 

Couldn’t help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land where justice is a game.

 

Be grateful for the things you don’t have that you don’t want.” -Bob Dylan’s Dad

 

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.

 

People are crazy and times are strange,I’m locked in tightI’m out of range,I use to carebut things have changed.

 

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

 

..my father was the best man in the world and probably worth a hundred of me, but he didn’t understand me. The town he lived in and the town I lived in were not the same.

 

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

 

Privacy is something you can sell, but you can’t buy it back.

 

No martyr is among ye now | Whom you can call your own | So go on your way accordingly | But know you’re not alone.

 

Beauty walks a razors edge, someday I’ll make it mine.

 

Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift – look out out kid, they keep it all hid

 

Yes, and only if my own true love was waiting If I could hear his heart softly pounding Yes, and only if he was lying by me Would I lie in my bed once again.

 

I never took much, I never asked for your crutch, Now don’t ask for mine.

 

New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.

 

How many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man?

 

Yes ‘n’ how many years can some people exist before they’re allowed to be free? Yes. ‘n’ how many times can a man turn his head pretending he just doesn’t see? The answer my friend is blowin’ in the wind.

 

why be bothered with other people’s set-ups? it only leads to torture.

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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.

 

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

 

The land created me. I’m wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I’m more at home in the vacant lots.

 

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’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

 

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

 

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

 

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.

 

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

 

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

 

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

 

 

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