Quotes About Bob Dylan

#1. I was burned out from exhaustion, buried in the hail, poisoned in the bushes,
blown out on the trail; hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the corn,
"Come in," she said, "I'll give ya shelter from the storm."

Bob Dylan

#2. I don't need your organization, I've moved your mountains and I've marked you cards, but Eden is burning. You better get ready for elimination or else your hearts must have the courage of the changing of the guard.

Bob Dylan

#3. Don't forget to support your public library.

Bob Dylan

#4. How many deaths will it take 'till we know that too many people have died?

Bob Dylan

#5. There's beauty in the silver singing river There's beauty in the sunrise in the sky But none of these and nothing else can match the beauty That I remember in my true love's eyes

Bob Dylan

#6. And it's a hard, It's a hard, It's a hard, It's a hard, It's a hard rain gonna fall.

Bob Dylan

#7. Some times I think this whole world Is one big prison yeard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards

Bob Dylan

#8. Satan will give you a little taste, then he'll move in with rapid speed.

Bob Dylan

#9. I was really lost for a while in my teens. I was angry. But when I found music - Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell - it was a new discovery. It was a door to this other world where I wanted to be.

Ray Lamontagne

#10. It's a shadowy world, skies are slippery grey. A woman just gave birth to a prince today and dressed him in scarlet. He'll put the priest in his pocket, put the blade to the heat, take the motherless children off the street and place them at the feet of a harlot.

Bob Dylan

#11. Morality has nothing in common with politics.

Bob Dylan

#12. Advertising signs: they con you into thinking you're the one That can do what's never been done That can win what's never been won Meantime life outside goes on all around you

Bob Dylan

#13. I heard the tongues of angels and the tongues of men and it all sounded no different to me.

Bob Dylan

#14. Don't put my faith in nobody, not even a scientist.

Bob Dylan

#15. Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride/
You will not die, its not poison
-Tombstone Blues

Bob Dylan

#16. I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

Bob Dylan

#17. You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.

Bob Dylan

#18. We're going all the way 'til the wheels fall off and burn.

Bob Dylan

#19. I see through your brain like I see through the water that runs down the drain.

Bob Dylan

#20. You're gonna have to serve somebody.

Bob Dylan

#21. It's not easy to define poetry.

Bob Dylan

#22. I love that Bob Dylan asked me to be in the first movie he wrote.

Val Kilmer

#23. All the tired horses in the sun How'm I supposed to get any ridin' done? Hmm.

Bob Dylan

#24. Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem.

Bob Dylan

#25. James Joyce seemed like the most arrogant man who ever lived, had both his eyes wide open and great faculty of speech, but what he say, I knew not what.

Bob Dylan

#26. Heard ten thousand whispering and nobody listening. Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughing. Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter.

Bob Dylan

#27. It rubs me the wrong way, a camera ... It's a frightening thing ... Cameras make ghosts out of people.

Bob Dylan

#28. I don't usually purge myself by writing anything about any type of quote, so-called, relationships.

Bob Dylan

#29. Romance never does go out of fashion. It's radical. But it's out of step with the current media culture.

Bob Dylan

#30. All the friends I ever had are gone.

Bob Dylan

#31. 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.

Bob Dylan

#32. And if you don't underestimate me, I won't underestimate you.

Bob Dylan

#33. Somehow you can tell the difference when a song is written just to get on the radio and when what someone does is their whole life. That comes through in Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson. There is no separating their life from their music.

Lyle Lovett

#34. Witchcraft scum exploiting the dumb turning children into punks and slaves.

Bob Dylan

#35. As long as you give my friend Jonah Lehrer a free pizza, I'll write a song about your restaurant.

Bob Dylan

#36. Take me disappearing, through the smoke rings of my mind, down the foggy ruins of time ...

Bob Dylan

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

Bob Dylan

#38. 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 ...

Bob Dylan

#39. We're living in times where men commit crimes and crime don't have a face.

Bob Dylan

#40. There's always one more notch and four more aces Billy, and you're playin' all alone.

Bob Dylan

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

Bob Dylan

#42. I'm going to do whatever the world tells me to. I'm going to act like I'm in a goddamn Bob Dylan song and blow in the direction of the wind. I'm going to pretend my future's wide open, and that anything can happen.

Nicola Yoon

#43. Well, it's hard to stumble And land in some muddy lagoon When it's nine below zero And three o'clock in the afternoon.

Bob Dylan

#44. To me, Godard did to movies what Bob Dylan did to music: they both revolutionized their forms.

Quentin Tarantino

#45. Having hits buries a singer in the past. A lot of singers hide in the past because it's safer back there. If you've ever heard today's country music, you'll know what I'm talking about.

Bob Dylan

#46. Well, the moral of the story, The moral of this song, Is simply that one should never be Where one does not belong. So when you see your neighbor carryin' somethin', Help him with his load, And don't go mistaking Paradise For that home across the road.

Bob Dylan

#47. Too much information about nothing.

Bob Dylan

#48. He gambled all his life, he's got 27 children, yet he's never had a wife.

Bob Dylan

#49. Too much of nothing can turn a man into a liar. It can cause one man to sleep on nails and another to eat fire.

Bob Dylan

#50. Maybe someday you will understand, that something for nothing is everybody's plan.

Bob Dylan

#51. I've never gone for having a great voice, for cultivating one. I'm still not doing it now.

Bob Dylan

#52. I took her by the hand and my heart it was thumpin'. When she said, hey man, you crazy or somethin'?

Bob Dylan

#53. Definition destroys ... there's nothing definite in this world

Bob Dylan

#54. Some are masters of illusions, some are ministers of trade, all under the same delusion, all their beds unmade.

Bob Dylan

#55. She knows there's no success like failure, and that failure's no success at all.

Bob Dylan

#56. I'll be selling tickets for my next tour exclusively through Jonah Lehrer. Make sure to pay cash.

Bob Dylan

#57. 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.

Bob Dylan

#58. The "Highway 61" album [of Bob Dylan] was produced by Bob Johnston if I'm not incorrect. And Bob Johnston was an entirely different producer than Tom Wilson. Tom Wilson had produced jazz records and was a Harvard educated.

Al Kooper

#59. When you ain't got nothin', you got nothin' to lose.

Bob Dylan

#60. So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away, to the wild unknown country where I could not go wrong.

Bob Dylan

#61. We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.

Jon Bon Jovi

#62. Most of the songs came from Europe and Africa and now they were coming back to us. Many of [Bob] Dylan's best songs came from Scotland, Ireland or England. It was a sort of cultural exchange.

John Lennon

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

Bob Dylan

#64. I've been really, really blessed. I got to perform on stage with Bob Dylan. I've gotten to sing with Mick Jagger.

Sheryl Crow

#65. I believe that instinct is what makes a genius a genius.

Bob Dylan

#66. The people in my songs are all me.

Bob Dylan

#67. You don't count the dead, when god's on your side.

Bob Dylan

#68. In songs, you have to tell people about something they didn't see and weren't there for, and you have to do it as if you were.

Bob Dylan

#69. But I would not feel so all alone, everybody must get stoned.

Bob Dylan

#70. Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams ... all of them are different styles, but those are the songs that make the times ... they're the songs that last through time.

Dolly Parton

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

Bob Dylan

#72. City's just a jungle; more games to play Trapped in the heart of it, tryin' to get away I was raised in the country, I been workin' in the town I been in trouble ever since I set my suitcase down

Bob Dylan

#73. I like Fidel Castro and his beard.

Bob Dylan

#74. People don't live or die, people just float.

Bob Dylan

#75. There's been rumors of war and wars that have been The meaning of life has been lost in the wind And some people thinkin' that the end is close by 'Stead of learnin' to live they are learnin' to die

Bob Dylan

#76. When are you gonna wake up and strengthened the things that remain.

Bob Dylan

#77. Sometimes you get out from behind the wheel and let someone else step on the gas.

Bob Dylan

#78. You must be vulnerable to be sensitive to reality. And to be vulnerable is just another way of saying that one has nothing more to lose. I don't have anything but darkness to lose.

Bob Dylan

#79. Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people, they're drinking, thinking that they got it made. Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things, but you'd better lift your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it, babe.

Bob Dylan

#80. 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.

Rod Stewart

#81. Philosophical dogma doesn't interest me.

Bob Dylan

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

Bob Dylan

#83. You can't criticize Bob Dylan's singing. You have to respect Billy Joel as a brilliant poet. You can't tell me there's a better rock band ever than Led Zeppelin. And if you speak during the Eagles' "Last Resort," we're done. I'm just asking for seven minutes. This stuff really matters, you know.

Charlie Sheen

#84. Little red wagon, little red bike, I ain't no monkey but I know what I like.

Bob Dylan

#85. Loneliness Got a mind of its own The more people around The more you feel alone

Bob Dylan

#86. What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk music's always done. I'm not going to sing about ploughing, but I'll write a song that sounds like it should be about ploughing.

Justin Townes Earle

#87. A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

Bob Dylan

#88. There must be some kind of way out of here,' said the joker to the thief ...

Bob Dylan

#89. Ain't it hard when you discover that, he wasn't really where it's at, after he took from you everything he could steal. How does it feel?

Bob Dylan

#90. You can't be wise and in love at the same time.

Bob Dylan

#91. The country music stations plays soft but there's nothing, really nothing to turn off.

Bob Dylan

#92. Take me on a trip upon your magic swirling ship.

Bob Dylan

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

Bob Dylan

#94. In another lifetime she must have owned the world, or been faithfully wed to some righteous king who wrote psalms beside moonlit streams.

Bob Dylan

#95. If it works for the piece of music, I'm going to use it. I don't want to be limited any more than [Bob] Dylan wanted to be limited by not using an electric guitar.

Linda Perhacs

#96. It's sundown on the Union and what's made in the USA, sure was a good idea, until greed got in the way.

Bob Dylan

#97. No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

Bob Dylan

#98. Wiggle 'til you're high, wiggle 'til you're higher, wiggle 'til you vomit fire.

Bob Dylan

#99. People are crazy and times are strange ... I used to care but things have changed

Bob Dylan

#100. Michelangelo indeed could have carved out your features.

Bob Dylan