Quotes By Bob Dylan

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

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

You can't be happy by doing something groovy.

Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way.

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

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

You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we're just going to be gone. The world's going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

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

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

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

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

Chaos is a friend of mine.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

I can't stand to see myself on television.