Bob Dylan
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.Collection: Nature
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.Collection: Music
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.Collection: Beauty
The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.Collection: Travel
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.Collection: Future
Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.Collection: Future
You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.Collection: Experience
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.Collection: Design
I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.Collection: Dreams
Money doesn't talk, it swears.Collection: Money
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.Collection: Death
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.Collection: Morning
Folk music is a bunch of fat people.Collection: Music
It's not easy to define poetry.Collection: Poetry
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.Collection: Freedom
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.Collection: Equality
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.Collection: Truth
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.Collection: Change
I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.Collection: Poetry
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.Collection: Freedom
I'm more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.Collection: Relationship
There is nothing so stable as change.Collection: Change
Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.Collection: Money
Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.Collection: Death
He not busy being born is busy dying.Collection: Life
Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.
No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.
Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.
All I can do is be me, whoever that is.
I stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed... so drastically, I couldn't believe it myself.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
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.
In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.
I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.
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.
A song is anything that can walk by itself.
In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.
A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.
I kinda live where I find myself.
If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.
But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.
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 can't be happy by doing something groovy.
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.
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 do something forever.
Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.