Bob Dylan Quotes

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

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

reality has too many heads

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

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

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

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

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

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

He not busy being born is busy dying.

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

If you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry

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

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

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

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

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.

It's not easy to define poetry.

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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.

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

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

All I can be is me- whoever that is.

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.

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