Bob Dylan
On the cliffs of your wild cat charms I'm riding.Collection: Cat
Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise.Collection: Wise
To preach of peace and brotherhood, oh what might be the cost? A man he did it long ago, and they hung him on a cross.Collection: Religious
Like the lion tears the flesh off a man, so can a woman who passes herself off as a male.Collection: Men
How many roads must a man walk down Before your can call him a man? . . . The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind.Collection: Men
Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody's shouting "Which Side Are You On?" And Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot Fighting in the captain's tower While calypso singers laugh at them And fishermen hold flowers.Collection: Flower
She had bullets in her eyes and they fired.Collection: Romantic
In the home of the brave, Jefferson turning over in his grave.Collection: Home
In the fury of the moment/ I can see the Master's hand In every leaf that trembles, in/ every grain of sand.Collection: Religious
You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future.Collection: Past
There would be brilliant songs, but, as [Bob] Dylan admitted on the recent Martin Scorsese documentary about him (No Direction Home), the specific muse that inspired "It's Alright Ma" would not return.Collection: Song
There are a lot of places I like, but I like New Orleans better.Collection: New Orleans
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth. You're an idiot babe, it's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.Collection: Friendship
Your old road is rapidly aging. Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand, For the times they are a-changin'.Collection: Hands
Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.Collection: Ocean
Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.Collection: Poetry
Disillusioned words like bullets bark as human gods aim for their mark.Collection: Art
If not for you, winter wouldn't hold no spring, couldn't hear a robin sing. I just wouldn't have a clue, if not for you.Collection: Friendship
Crimson flames tied through my ears Rollin' high and mighty traps Pounced with fire on flaming roads Using ideas as my maps "We'll meet on edges, soon," said I Proud 'neath heated brow. Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth "Rip down all hate," I screamed Lies that life is black and white Spoke from my skull. I dreamed Romantic facts of musketeers Foundationed deep, somehow. Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.Collection: Rip
Even I don't know what I'm saying most of the time.Collection: Knows
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.Collection: Success
Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.Collection: Education
May you stay Forever Young.Collection: Birthday
How many roads must a man walk down, Before you call him a man? How many seas must a white dove sail, Before she sleeps in the sand? Yes, and how many times must the cannon balls fly, Before they’re forever banned?Collection: Sea
Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn’t work.Collection: Creativity
Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be.Collection: Future
I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.Collection: Firsts
I think of rock ‘n’ roll as a combination of country blues and swing band music, not Chicago blues, and modern pop.Collection: Country
A song is like a dream, and you try to make it come true. They’re like strange countries that you have to enter.Collection: Country
Romance never does go out of fashion. It’s radical. But it’s out of step with the current media culture.Collection: Romance
The real power is in the hands of small groups of people and I don’t think they have titles.Collection: Real
With great lawyers you have discussed lepers and crooks, you’ve been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s books.Collection: Book
You five and ten cent women with nothing in your heads, I got a real gal I’m loving and Lord I’ll love her ’til I’m dead.Collection: Real