Top 100 Quotes About Dylan
#1. Showing off seemed to me to be a highly valuable and necessary activity when I was 20.
Dylan Moran
#2. After the Beatles and Dylan, there's this assumption that you are a singer-songwriter, or that if someone else is writing your rhymes, you're a fake rapper.
Alan Light
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. Don't forget to support your public library.
Bob Dylan
#6. I mean, I always think when you're an actor you have to be the guy running into the burning building rather than running out of it, if you want to make some noise as an actor.
Dylan McDermott
#7. People don't really have much of a choice when the heart falls. I'm lucky enough that mine just so happened to fall for you, Misty." - Dylan to Misty in, When the Heart Falls
Kimberly Lewis
#8. We enjoyed the fact that we were called to the folk festivals and we got to know Joan Baez, Dylan. We were singing strictly gospel, but then after we started hearing songs that they would sing, we saw that those songs were very fitting for us because they were singing the truth, and truth is gospel.
Mavis Staples
#9. How many deaths will it take 'till we know that too many people have died?
Bob Dylan
#10. He could dismiss several schools of philosophy by shifting slightly in his chair or toting his whisky glass.
Dylan Moran
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. Fear not the waking world, my mortal,
Fear not the flat, synthetic blood,
Nor the heart in the ribbing metal.
Fear not the tread, the seeded milling,
The trigger and scythe, the bridal blade,
Nor the flint in the lover's mauling.
Dylan Thomas
#14. I've seen stand up comedy, and after a while you start to notice that a lot of people are doing things that are like a lot of other people. There can be a bit of a herd mentality, and that's obviously less interesting because there's less going on. I'm just being totally frank with you.
Dylan Moran
#15. 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
#16. Satan will give you a little taste, then he'll move in with rapid speed.
Bob Dylan
#17. I'm always trying to pop up in different genres, what interests me. Sometimes I just like to throw myself into new situations to see what it feel like.
Dylan McDermott
#18. Within the microcosm of a film you get drawn to people. There are certain projects you care enormously about, and 'The Edge Of Love' was one because I was portraying a great hero of mine, Dylan Thomas.
Matthew Rhys
#19. 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
#20. I know everything about candy. Would you believe I even know where to find gumballs in the middle of Africa?
Dylan Lauren
#21. 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
#22. I enjoy performing, always, but when you're taping a gig, you've got to blank out this mass apparatus of self-consciousness that's surrounding you, this invitation to drown in self-consciousness. Otherwise you just won't be able to do anything.
Dylan Moran
#23. Morality has nothing in common with politics.
Bob Dylan
#24. 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
#25. I heard the tongues of angels and the tongues of men and it all sounded no different to me.
Bob Dylan
#26. And books which told me everything about the wasp, except why.
Dylan Thomas
#27. Don't put my faith in nobody, not even a scientist.
Bob Dylan
#28. I moved to California when I was twelve and I got a video camera and made little movies because I didn't have any friends yet. I would force my sister to make these movies with me - which became my YouTube channel.
Dylan O'Brien
#29. Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride/
You will not die, its not poison
-Tombstone Blues
Bob Dylan
#30. I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.
Bob Dylan
#31. 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
#32. We're going all the way 'til the wheels fall off and burn.
Bob Dylan
#34. I see through your brain like I see through the water that runs down the drain.
Bob Dylan
#35. There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas.
Robert Adamson
#36. You're gonna have to serve somebody.
Bob Dylan
#37. It's not easy to define poetry.
Bob Dylan
#38. I love that Bob Dylan asked me to be in the first movie he wrote.
Val Kilmer
#39. All the tired horses in the sun How'm I supposed to get any ridin' done? Hmm.
Bob Dylan
#40. Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem.
Bob Dylan
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. I've tried like hell to make bad movies good, and I can't. Maybe Marlon Brando has been able to do that at times. But even he has a hard time making 'The Appaloosa' a good movie.
Dylan McDermott
#44. It rubs me the wrong way, a camera ... It's a frightening thing ... Cameras make ghosts out of people.
Bob Dylan
#45. I don't usually purge myself by writing anything about any type of quote, so-called, relationships.
Bob Dylan
#46. Romance never does go out of fashion. It's radical. But it's out of step with the current media culture.
Bob Dylan
#47. All the friends I ever had are gone.
Bob Dylan
#48. Their eyes find mine and they freeze. Emotions flicker across their faces quicker than I can identify, until finally they settle on one I recognize. One I see every time Miya looks at me. Love. - Dylan
Dannielle Wicks
#49. 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
#50. It's insane that, since the Beatles and Dylan, it's assumed that all musicians should do everything themselves. It's that ridiculous, teenage idea that when Mick Jagger sings, he's telling you something about his own life. It's so arrogant to think that people would want to know about it anyway!
Brian Eno
#51. And if you don't underestimate me, I won't underestimate you.
Bob Dylan
#52. 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
#53. Witchcraft scum exploiting the dumb turning children into punks and slaves.
Bob Dylan
#54. As long as you give my friend Jonah Lehrer a free pizza, I'll write a song about your restaurant.
Bob Dylan
#55. Take me disappearing, through the smoke rings of my mind, down the foggy ruins of time ...
Bob Dylan
#56. Dark is a way and light is a place,
Heaven that never was
Nor will be ever is always true
Poem on His Birthday
Dylan Thomas
#57. So quit asking everybody else questions, unless you're ready to answer some questions yourself.
Carolee Dean
#58. You better start swimming, or you'll sink like a stone. Because the Time's they are a-changing.
Bob Dylan
#59. 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
#60. Youth calls to age across the tired years: 'What have you found,' he cries, 'what have you sought? 'What have you found,' age answers through his tears, 'What have you sought.
Dylan Thomas
#61. We're living in times where men commit crimes and crime don't have a face.
Bob Dylan
#62. I do not need any friends. I prefer enemies. They are better company and their feelings towards you are always genuine.
Dylan Thomas
#63. There's always one more notch and four more aces Billy, and you're playin' all alone.
Bob Dylan
#64. Do you know how easy it would be to kill you, Miya? I've thought about it--killing you...and you think I'm not a monster.--Dylan
Dannielle Wicks
#65. I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Bob Dylan
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. To me, Godard did to movies what Bob Dylan did to music: they both revolutionized their forms.
Quentin Tarantino
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. I wear sunscreen every single day - I just don't go out of the house without it. I also try to get enough sleep, eat as healthy as I can and keep hydrated. I have very sensitive skin, and depending on what products are used on a shoot, my skin can break out in an instant.
Dylan Penn
#72. Sometimes people walk into plays by accident - they don't even know what they're looking at; they just think to give it a chance. That can be the beginning of a long friendship.
Dylan Baker
#73. Too much information about nothing.
Bob Dylan
#74. He gambled all his life, he's got 27 children, yet he's never had a wife.
Bob Dylan
#75. 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
#76. Maybe someday you will understand, that something for nothing is everybody's plan.
Bob Dylan
#77. I've never gone for having a great voice, for cultivating one. I'm still not doing it now.
Bob Dylan
#78. Dylan? Are you kidding me? I'm breathing Dylan?" "Yes," Kym said. "That seems to be his name.
Rick Riordan
#79. I took her by the hand and my heart it was thumpin'. When she said, hey man, you crazy or somethin'?
Bob Dylan
#80. Definition destroys ... there's nothing definite in this world
Bob Dylan
#81. Some are masters of illusions, some are ministers of trade, all under the same delusion, all their beds unmade.
Bob Dylan
#83. The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees
Is my destroyer
Dylan Thomas
#84. She knows there's no success like failure, and that failure's no success at all.
Bob Dylan
#85. America's work ethic is non-stop; it's not even enshrined in law that workers have to get their two weeks holiday money. But Americans work harder than everyone else I can think of.
Dylan Moran
#86. I don't really give much thought to the roles that I'd ideally love to play.
Dylan O'Brien
#88. I'll be selling tickets for my next tour exclusively through Jonah Lehrer. Make sure to pay cash.
Bob Dylan
#89. Everybody is corrupted by hotel rooms. You can't help it. It's the only place in the world where you walk in and the first think you do is steal everything before you take your coat off.
Dylan Moran
#90. Organic? I grew up on Angel Delight. We didn't have anything in the house if it wasn't neon!
Dylan Moran
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. Fruit ... it's just God showing off. "Look at all the colours I know!"
Dylan Moran
#94. When did you ever hear of a child not in need? 'Oh that's enough jam tart for me, I'll just go now and clean the toilets.'
Dylan Moran
#95. When you ain't got nothin', you got nothin' to lose.
Bob Dylan
#96. So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away, to the wild unknown country where I could not go wrong.
Bob Dylan
#97. I did a movie with Clint Eastwood and I knew I wasn't going to be able to 'out-man' him.
Dylan McDermott
#98. 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
#99. I just happened to step into acting. And now I can't imagine myself doing anything else.
Dylan O'Brien
#100. I don't believe him for a second, but I'm not telling Daisy that Dylan lied because I know what it's like to want a girl that much. To get dragged in the dirt behind her hoping you won't lose your grip.
Cath Crowley
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