Bob Dylan Quotes

Suddenly I found you and the spirit in me sings, Don't have to look no further, You're the soul of many things.

What looks large from a distance, close up ain’t never that big.

The inmates and prisoners, I found they were my kind, and it was there inside the bars I found my peace of mind.

I feel like falling in love with the first woman I meet, putting her in a wheel-barrow and wheeling her down the street.

I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn't allowed him to do or encouraged him to do.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

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.

Look at the sun sinkin' like a ship. Ain't that just like my heart, babe. When you kissed my lips?

We have never arrived. We are in a constant state of becoming.

... we're living in a Machiavellian world, whether we like it or we don't.

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

Creativity has a lot to do with the main idea. Inspiration is what comes when you are dealing with the idea. But inspiration won't invite what's not there to begin with.

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.

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

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

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

A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness.

I put one on the turntable and when the needle dropped, I was stunned - didn't know whether I was stoned or straight.

Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb/I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from/Don't even hear a murmur of a prayer/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.

Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.

[Bob] Dylan crashed his motorcycle in 1967, and almost died. A few years ago, he referred to the experience as a "transfiguration."

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

I practice a faith that's been long abandoned Ain't no altars on this long and lonesome road

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

In this ocean of hours I'm all the time drinking.

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

You have to work out where your place is. And who you are. But we're all spirit. That's all we are, we're just walking dressed up in a suit of skin, and we're going to leave that behind.

Jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule.

I was born a long way from where I belong and I am on my way home.

God, I'm glad I'm not me.

Sometimes I'm thinkin' I'm Too high to fall Other times I'm thinkin' I'm So low I don't know If I can come up at all

Nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street.

When it came time to hire a guitar player ... I didn't even have to think about it ... Mike Bloomfield was the best guitar player I'd ever heard.

You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns when they all did tricks for you.

Let the dead bury the dead, your time will come.

My love is like some raven at my window with a broken wing.

A lot of people don't like the road, but it's as natural to me as breathing.

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

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

I believe in you, even though I be outnumbered.

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

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

The woman I love she got a prize fighter nose, cauliflower ears and a run in her hose.

Now all the criminals in their suits and ties are free to drink martinis and watch the sunrise

Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast

You're gonna have to serve somebody.

People call you this or that. But I can't respond because then it seems like I'm defensive, you know, what does it matter, really?

There's not even room enough to be anywhere/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.../I was born here and I'll die here against my will/I know it looks like I'm moving, but I'm standing still.

Ring the bells for the blind and deaf.

Don't know which one is worse, doing your own thing or just being cool.