Dylan Quotes

I think The Beatles are the lasting influence on me, even more so than Dylan.

I can't do that wonderful thing that Tom Waits and Bob Dylan do - to do imagery. I'm not good at that. I just write from the heart.

I don't listen to hard rock or heavy metal. I suppose I've always been influenced by folk music, I'm a big Bob Dylan fan.

She smiled, turning toward Alek. "You don't know what a friend you have in Dylan.

I think that's what Dylan's trying to do: to create a space artistically where something else can take shape, can take life - where there's hope.

[ Bob Dylan] should let the Nobel Prize Committee know if he is accepting it or not. He will not be the first one who declines the prize for political or personal reasons. He should just tell them.

[Bob Dylan] is a worthy laureate for the Nobel Prize.

Culture Clash Dylan says when I meet his mother today I shouldn't mention that I'm Jewish. I say okay, but can I tell her about the HIV postive thing? He gives me a look. I give him one back

Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.

For better or worse I'm the writer I am today because of hearing those Dylan records. For better and most certainly not for worse, I'm the person I am today because of hearing Charles.

Well, I love Bob Dylan, let's make that clear. He's one of my musical heroes.

I am a Bob Dylan fan.

Barely awake and already starting in with the questions.You were alot easier to take when you were sleeping." - Rio to Dylan

I didn't sound anything like Capote at the screen test. It was more like Bob Dylan. In his early years. With the flu.

I'm unhappy as Dylan Thomas was, because I'm not, but I've had my brushes with sadness.

I'm not as self-destructive as Dylan Thomas, but I've certainly been around that behavior enough to have found it a release. The thing that I really enjoyed was being able to play misery.

I'm not Welsh and I didn't know that much about Dylan Thomas , and I saw that he's a huge icon of Welsh-ness.

Why is this generation looking to aging icons like John Lennon and Bob Dylan for inspiration? Why not raising up their own icons?

Saying directors don't write because they don't type is very wrong, it's like saying Dylan doesn't write music because he doesn't write notation.

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

All I can be is me- whoever that is.

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.

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.

Once upon a time You dressed so fine

..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.

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

Everybody is waiting for cooler weather--and I am just waiting for you--. (Bob Dylan in a letter)

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

People will kill you. Over time. They will shave out every last morsel of fun in you with little, harmless sounding phrases that people uses every day, like: 'Be realistic!'" (2009)]

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts and confusions, are written for the love of man and in Praise of God, and I'd be a damn fool if they weren't.

Words are like people, I think. Put too many of them too close together and they cause trouble.

He stilled my room, for sure.

People will kill you. Over time. They will shave out every last morsel of fun in you with little, harmless sounding phrases that people uses every day, like: 'Be realis

Do not go gentle into that good night, rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Packed up the Dylan and the Man Ray and the JoyceI left a note that said well I guess I got no choiceScuse me girl while I'm kicking it to the curbLeaving with all I need but less than I deserve

I'm not going to lie to you and say it gets easier, because it doesn't. It's just that you get used to it. The human animal has an amazing capacity to get used to almost anything.

The problem with life—with a lot of things—was randomness was responsible for so many things.

He looks like a horse in a man costume!

Those who have witnessed executions say there is no sound worse than the weeping of mother watching her son being put to death. They're wrong. There is one sound that is worse. There is silence.

I was so much older then