Bob Dylan Quotes

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

~ Bob Dylan

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

~ Bob Dylan

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

~ Bob Dylan

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

~ Bob Dylan

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

~ Bob Dylan

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

~ Bob Dylan

He not busy being born is busy dying.

~ Bob Dylan

Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want (Bob Dylan's dad)

~ Bob Dylan

There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.

~ Bob Dylan

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... whatever the case, it wasn't that I was anti-popular culture or anything and I had no ambition to stir things up. I just thought of mainstream culture as lame as hell and a big trick. It was like the unbroken sea of frost that lay outside the window and you had to have awkward footgear to walk with.

~ Bob Dylan

They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.

~ Bob Dylan

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...

~ Bob Dylan

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

~ Bob Dylan

I had no time for romance. I turned away from the window, from the wintry sun, crossed through the room, went to the stove and made and poured myself a cup of hot chocolate and then clicked on the radio

~ Bob Dylan

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/...

~ 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

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

~ Bob Dylan

Ah, but I was so much older thenI’m younger than that now

~ Bob Dylan

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

Let me ask you one questionIs your money that goodWill it buy you forgivenessDo you think that it couldI think you will findWhen your death takes its tollAll the money you madeWill never buy back your soul

~ Bob Dylan

I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours

~ Bob Dylan

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

~ Bob Dylan

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.

~ Bob Dylan

The line it is drawnThe curse it is castThe slow one nowWill later be fastAs the present nowWill later be pastThe new order isRapidly fadin'.And the first one nowWill later be lastFor the times they are a-changin'.

~ Bob Dylan

Come senators, congressmenPlease heed the callDon't stand in the doorwayDon't block up the hallFor he that gets hurtWill be he who has stalledThere's a battle outside ragin'.It'll soon shake your windowsAnd rattle your wallsFor the times they are a-changin'.

~ Bob Dylan

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

~ Bob Dylan

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

~ Bob Dylan

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

~ Bob Dylan

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

~ Bob Dylan

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

~ Bob Dylan

reality has too many heads

~ Bob Dylan

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

~ Bob Dylan

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

~ Bob Dylan

I wasn't going to go deeper into the darkness for anybody. I was already living in the darkness. My family was my light and I was going to protect that light at all cost. That was where my dedication was, first, last and everything in-between. What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing. Not a damn thing.

~ Bob Dylan

It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry

~ Bob Dylan

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.

~ Bob Dylan

The dominant myth of the day seemed to be that anybody could do anything, even go to the moon. You could do whatever you wanted -in the ads and in the articles, ignore your limitations, defy them. If you were an indecisive person, you could become a leader and wear lederhosen. If you were a housewife, you could become a glamour girl with rhinestone sunglasses. Are you slow witted? No worries -you can be an intellectual genius. If you're old, you can be young. Anything was possible. It was almost like a war against the self.

~ Bob Dylan

DESTINY is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have in your own mind of what you're about WILL COME TRUE. It's a kind of a thing you kind of have to keep to your own self, because it's a fragile feeling, and you put it out there, then someone will kill it. It's best to keep that all inside.

~ Bob Dylan

Inside the museums, | Infinity goes up on trial | Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while

~ Bob Dylan

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