394 Quotes by Bob Dylan (Page 3 of 3)

Music attracts the angels in the universe.

Time is an ocean, but it ends at the shore.

People disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book.

The purpose of art is to stop time.

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.

The times they are a-changing.

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

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

And songs, to me, were more important than just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of reality, some different republic, some liberated republic.

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.

It seemed I'd always been chasing after something, anything that moved -a car, a bird, a blowing leaf -anything that might lead me into some more lit place, some unknown land downriver. I had not even the vaguest notion of the broken world I was living in, what society could do with you.

My father was the best man in the world and probably worth a hundred of me, but he didn't understand me. The town he lived in and the town I lived in were not the same.

I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be, and so I'm on my way home.

Once upon a time You dressed so fine.

I never took much, I never asked for your crutch, Now don't ask for mine.

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'.

You can never be wise and be in love at the same time.

The woman I love she got a prize fighter nose, cauliflower ears and a run in her hose.

May you stay Forever Young.

Every brain is civilized, Every nerve is analyzed, Everything is criticized when you are in need.

She's got everything she needs; she's an artist, she don't look back.

We all like motorcycles to some degree.

Look, you know i don't wanna come on ungrateful, but that warren report, you know as well as me, just didn't make it. You know, like they might as well have asked some banana salesman from des moines, who was up in toronto on the big day, if he saw anyone around looking suspicious .

Everything in New Orleans is a good idea.

If you're looking to get silly, you better go back to from where you came. because the cops don't need you and man they expect the same.

Yes, and only if my own true love was waiting
If I could hear his heart softly pounding
Yes, and only if he was lying by me
Would I lie in my bed once again.

Beauty walks a razors edge, someday I'll make it mine.

Suddenly I found you and the spirit in me sings, Don't have to look no further, You're the soul of many things.

How does it feel, how does it feel to be without a home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone.

The future for me is already a thing of the past -
You were my first love and you will be my last.

Dostoevsky, too, had lived a dismal and hard life. The czar sent him to a prison camp in Siberia in 1849. Dostoevsky was accused of writing socialist propaganda. He was eventually pardoned and wrote stories to ward off his creditors. Just like in the early '70s I wrote albums to ward off mine.

All I've got is a red guitar, three chords and the truth.

My big fear was that my guitar would go out of tune.

How many times must a man look up, before he can see the sky?

I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know some people are terrified of the bomb. But then some people are terrified to be seen carrying a modern screen magazine. Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.

Seven shots ring out like the ocean's pounding roar, there's seven people dead on a South Dakota farm.

Let me drink from the waters where the mountain streams flood Let the smell of wildflowers flow free through my blood Let me sleep in your meadows with the green grassy leaves Let me walk down the highway with my brother in peace Let me die in my footsteps Before I go down under the ground.

Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul.

When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose.

Play it fuckin' loud!

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you'd like to act.

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

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

There are those who worship loneliness, I'm not one of them In this age of fiberglass I'm searching for a gem The crystal ball up on the wall hasn't shown me nothing yet I've paid the price of solitude, but at last I'm out of debt.

May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong, may you stay forever young.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.

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

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

The radio makes hideous sounds.

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

I'm more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

Nothing can affect my voice, it's so bad.

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

I'm sick of giving creeps money off my soul.

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

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.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

It's hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.

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

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.

Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way.

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

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

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

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

I think I have a dualistic nature.

I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.

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

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself.

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

What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.

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

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