Quotes By Bob Dylan

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

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

I really didn't consider myself happy or unhappy.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

I can't act!

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

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

The people in my songs are all me.

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

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

There is nothing so stable as change.

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young.

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

My range is limited.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Some formulas are too complex and I don't want anything to do with them.