Bob Dylan quotes: wise famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan Famous Quotes & Sayings

Discover top inspirational quotes from Bob Dylan on Wise Famous Quotes.

They asked me for some collateral and I pulled down my pants.

Get jailed, jump bail, join the Army if you fail.

When you got nothing, you got nothin' to lose You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.

If you think the summer sun is too hot, just remember, at least you don't have to shovel it.

People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.

If you don't believe there's a price for this sweet paradise, just remind me to show you the scars.

One should never be where one does not belong.

At the final end you won the war after losing every battle.

When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud, I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form.

I'm mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it's the only place where I'm happy.

Done so many evil things in the name of love, it's a crying shame. I never did see no fire that could put out a flame.

I feel like falling in love with the first woman I meet, putting her in a wheel-barrow and wheeling her down the street.

Once upon a time You dressed so fine

You use to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat, who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat.

Peace is the time it takes to reload your rifle.

Sailin' 'round the world in a dirty gondola
Oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!

And for each unharmful gentle soul misplaced inside a jail ...

There are a lot of places I like, but I like New Orleans better.

All the people we used to know, they're an illusion to me now.

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

With great lawyers you have discussed lepers and crooks, you've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books.

Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb.

When Johnson started singing, he seemed like a guy who could have sprung from the head of Zeus in full armor.

Lord knows I've paid my dues getting through, tangled up in blue.

I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children.

She never stumbles,
she's got no place to fall.
She's nobody's child,
the law can't touch her at all.

I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more.

Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.

I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.

I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something.

You've got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down you just stood there a grinin

I'm glad I'm not me

Once you think you know the song, then you have go and see how other people have done it.

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

I failed to communicate, that's why I chose to leave

There's a wall between you and what you want and you got to leap it.

You don't write a song to sit there on a page. You write it to sing it.

I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken

Though the masters make the rules
For the wise men and the fools,
I got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

A cork screw to my heart, ever since we've been apart.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Either I'm too sensitive, or else I'm gettin' soft

Silvio, I gotta go, find out something only dead men know.

with her fog, her amphetamine, and her pearls ...

Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through.

Some things are too terrible to be true.

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

How many roads must a man walk down.. Before you can call him a Man..

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

Her profession's her religion, her sin is lifelessness.

It wouldn't kill you to stay the night anyway.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

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

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

Abe said where d'you want this killin done / God said out on highway 61

You're gonna have to serve somebody.

May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung.

If you told the truth, that was all well and good and if you told the un-truth, well, that's still well and good. Folk songs had taught me that.

You know what they say about bein' nice to the right people on the way up Sooner or later you gonna meet them comin' down

What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

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

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

People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.

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

The tree of life is growing where the spirit never dies, and the bright light of salvation shines in dark and empty skies.

The hollow horn plays wasted words, proves to warn that he not busy being born is busy dying.

You say you lost your faith
But that's not where it's at
You had no faith to lose
And you know it

New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

My range is limited.

Gotta head full of ideas that are driving me insane ...

We all like motorcycles to some degree.

reality has too many heads

I don't really have a retirement plan.

Never make it perfect.

Whatever colors you have in your mind, I'll show them to you and you'll see them shine.

Shedding off one more layer of skin
Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within

You can hurt someone and not even know it.

Every day your memory grows dimmer - it doesn't haunt me like it did before.

There is a house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun, and it's been the ruin of many a poor boy and God I know I'm one.

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

I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams.

Adulterers in churches and pornography in the schools, you got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules. When you gonna wake up?

The warrior who's strength is not to fight.

I feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door.

How many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they're forever banned?

I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now.
From the back pages

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

You five and ten cent women with nothing in your heads, I got a real gal I'm loving and Lord I'll love her 'til I'm dead.

You're gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you're gonna have to serve somebody ...

I count the years and I shed no tears; I'm blinded to what might have been. Nature's voice makes my heart rejoice; play me the wild song of the wind.

I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

If you can't lend a hand, then get out of the way.

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?

You know, the streets are filled with vipers Who've lost all ray of hope You know, it ain't even safe no more In the palace of the Pope

People need to be encouraged, not stepped on and put in a straitjacket!

The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handle

Somebody had to be Bob Dylan. I guess I was best equipped to do the job.