The Best Bob Dylan Quotes:
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Bob Dylan

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All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

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

I'm speaking for all of us. I'm the spokesman for a generation.

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

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

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

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

Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.

Bob Dylan
Blowin' In the Wind

Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

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

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.

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

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

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

Bob Dylan, 1964

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Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

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.

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

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

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

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

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

Bob Dylan
House Of The Rising Sun

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

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

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

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

Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

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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.

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

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

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.

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

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

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

Bob Dylan
Historical Moments

The radio makes hideous sounds.

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.

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

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

There is nothing so stable as change.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.

Don't Look Back

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A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

I say there are no depressed words just depressed minds.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

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

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

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
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