Quotes By Bob Dylan

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 paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

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

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

I think I have a dualistic nature.

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

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

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

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

I kinda live where I find myself.