Bob Dylan Quotes

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

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

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 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.

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

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

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.

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

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

I have dined with kings, I’ve been offered wings. And I’ve never been too impressed.

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.

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

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

Chaos is a friend of mine.

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

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

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

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

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it’s like they didn’t fade away at all.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

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.

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

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

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

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.

You can’t do something forever.

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

I kinda live where I find myself.

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

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

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

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

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

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

I’m inconsistent, even to myself.

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.

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

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