Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, author, and visual artist who has been a major figure in popular culture for more than fifty years. Profoundly inspirational Bob Dylan quotes and lyrics will challenge the way you think, change the way you live and transform your whole life.
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Famous Bob Dylan Quotes
I define nothing not beauty not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be. 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
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around the music and the ideas. Bob Dylan
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom. Bob Dylan
A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding. Bob Dylan
Don’t criticize what you can’t understand. Bob Dylan
Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it. Bob Dylan
And I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinking. Bob Dylan
I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen. Bob Dylan
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. Bob Dylan
I stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed so drastically, I couldn’t believe it myself. Bob Dylan
No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky. And I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinking
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
Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles. Bob Dylan
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie. Bob Dylan
It’s a wicked life, but what the hell, the stars ain’t falling down. Bob Dylan
Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it’s like they didn’t fade away at all. Bob Dylan
Sometimes I think this whole world is one big prison yard. Some of us are prisoners the rest of us are guards. 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
Take me disappearing, through the smoke rings of my mind, down the foggy ruins of time. Bob Dylan
At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage. Bob Dylan
You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. Bob Dylan
I kinda live where I find myself. Bob Dylan
If you need somebody you can trust, trust yourself Bob Dylan
He is not busy being born is busy dying. Bob Dylan
Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So, I disappear a lot. Bob Dylan
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
Peace is the time it takes to reload your rifle. Bob Dylan
I’m speaking for all of us. I’m the spokesman for a generation. Bob Dylan
Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than those who are most content. 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 there’s some kind of change. Bob Dylan
There are degrees of happiness. You go from one to the other and then back again. It’s hard to be completely happy when those around us are suffering and groaning from hunger.
I’m inconsistent, even to myself. 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
I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds. Bob Dylan
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent. Bob Dylan
Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about. Bob Dylan
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. Bob Dylan
I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged. Bob Dylan
You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more Bob Dylan
What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. Bob Dylan
Whatever you do. You ought to be the best at it highly skilled. It’s about confidence, not arrogance. Bob Dylan
Colleges are like old age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges. Bob Dylan
Gotta head full of ideas that are driving me insane. Bob Dylan
Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot. Bob Dylan
If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there’s no success like failure. Bob Dylan
In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall. Bob Dylan
Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it. Bob Dylan
I don’t think I’ve ever been an agnostic. I’ve always thought there’s a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there’s a world to come. Bob Dylan
The only thing I knew how to do was to keep on keeping on. Bob Dylan
Every step of the way we walk the line Your days are numbered, so are mine Time is pilin’ up, we struggle and we scrape We’re all boxed in, nowhere to escape Bob Dylan
Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be. Bob Dylan
You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more Bob Dylan
May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young. Bob Dylan
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent. Bob Dylan
It’s always disappointing when people decide for one reason or another that they don’t like your work anymore, but you can’t try to please people, because then you might be being a fake about the whole thing. Bob Dylan
I have dined with kings, I’ve been offered wings. And I’ve never been too impressed. Bob Dylan
Passion rules the arrow that flies. Bob Dylan
