Bob Dylan
What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.
Chaos is a friend of mine.
To live outside the law, you must be honest.
I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.
Some formulas are too complex and I don't want anything to do with them.
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way.
The radio makes hideous sounds.
Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.
I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.
I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon.
You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.
I don't think I'm tangible to myself.
I can't act!
I really didn't consider myself happy or unhappy.
Nothing can affect my voice, it's so bad.
I'm speaking for all of us. I'm the spokesman for a generation.
I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come.
I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.
Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
I'm mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it's the only place where I'm happy.
Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.
My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.
I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.
I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something.
You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.
I'm inconsistent, even to myself.
It's hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.
Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.
When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?
The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.
The people in my songs are all me.
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.
Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere.
You call yourself what you want to call yourself.
I can't stand to see myself on television.
I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.
I'm sick of giving creeps money off my soul.
A lot of people don't like the road, but it's as natural to me as breathing.
A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.
I never saw myself as a folk singer.
I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible.
People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young.
I'm not a playwright.
I think I have a dualistic nature.
My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.
My range is limited.
I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.