Bob Dylan Quotes

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

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

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.

May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young.

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

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...

Chaos is a friend of mine.

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

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

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

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.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Ah - but I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now

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

There is nothing so stable as change.

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

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

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

Don't Ask Me Nothing About Nothing, I Just Might Tell You the Truth

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.

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

Everything passes, Everything changes, Just do what you think you should do.

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

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

Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks.

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

Steal a little, and they put you in jail. Steal a lot, and they make you king.

Johnny's in the basement Mixing up the medicine I'm on the pavement Thinking 'bout the government.

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

You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way.

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

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

Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon -but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx -the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?

Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I'm not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I've never thought about that before! He said, When you're not following me, you're resisting me.

Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I've got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

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

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

For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.

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

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

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

Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's pollution

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

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

Blame it on a simple twist of fate.

Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that's going on right now in a big way.