Bob Dylan Quotes

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

A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.
Bob Dylan

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.
Bob Dylan

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
Bob Dylan

A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan

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

A song is anything that can walk by itself.
Bob Dylan

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.
Bob Dylan

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

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

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.
Bob Dylan

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
Bob Dylan

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

Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere.
Bob Dylan

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.
Bob Dylan

Chaos is a friend of mine.
Bob Dylan

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
Bob Dylan

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.
Bob Dylan

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

He not busy being born is busy dying.
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I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.
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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.
Bob Dylan

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

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

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.
Bob Dylan

I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.
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I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.
Bob Dylan

I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.
Bob Dylan

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.
Bob Dylan

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
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I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.
Bob Dylan

I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon.
Bob Dylan

I'm speaking for all of us. I'm the spokesman for a generation.
Bob Dylan

I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.
Bob Dylan

If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.
Bob Dylan

In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.
Bob Dylan

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

Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.
Bob Dylan

Money doesn't talk, it swears.
Bob Dylan

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.
Bob Dylan