Quotes By Bob Dylan

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

I kinda live where I find myself.

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

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

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

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

The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.

A lot of people don't like the road, but it's as natural to me as breathing.

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.

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

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

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

I can't stand to see myself on television.

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

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

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

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

You can't do something forever.

I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

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.

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

It's not easy to define poetry.

I'm not a playwright.

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

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

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

The radio makes hideous sounds.

Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.