Bob Dylan
May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young.Collection: Strong
We have never arrived. We are in a constant state of becoming.Collection: Yoga
May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung.Collection: Song
The purpose of art is to stop time.Collection: Life
Everything passes, Everything changes, Just do what you think you should do.Collection: Change
If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Jobs
Steal a little and they throw you in jail Steal a lot and they make you king.Collection: Kings
Don't criticize what you can't understand.Collection: Education
Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.Collection: Sunglasses
You always got to be prepared but you never know for what.Collection: Be Prepared
Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.Collection: Mean
If you need somebody you can trust, trust yourselfCollection: Needs
Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.Collection: Sad
The purpose of music is to elevate the spirit and inspire. Not to help push some product down your throat. It puts you in tune with your own existence. Sometimes you really don't know how you feel, but really good music can define how you feel... someone who's telling me where he's been that I haven't and what it's like there - somebody whose life I can feel.Collection: Inspire
When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks.Collection: Giving Up
How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?Collection: Song
You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.Collection: Hippie
She makes love just like a woman.Collection: Profound
I do know what my songs are about.Collection: Song
I used to think it's better if you just live and die and no one knows who you are.Collection: Thinking
You will find God in the church of your choice.Collection: Choices
She can play my guitar note for note, she likes to stick her tongue down my throat.Collection: Guitar
And there's no one there to dry your tears. I could hold you for a million years. To make you feel my love.Collection: Inspirational Love
Having hits buries a singer in the past. A lot of singers hide in the past because it's safer back there. If you've ever heard today's country music, you'll know what I'm talking about.Collection: Country
And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.Collection: Music
Mothers tell your children not to do the things I have done, to spend my life in sin and misery in the House of the Rising Sun.Collection: Family
There are no truths outside the Gates of Eden.Collection: Religious
One who sings with his tongue on fire, gargles in the rat race choir.Collection: Fire
Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.Collection: Art
Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected?Collection: Witty
If God is on our side, he'll stop the next war.Collection: War
Watch waterfalls of pity roar, you feel to moan but unlike before, you discover that you'd just be one more person crying.Collection: Sadness
Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want (Bob Dylan's dad)Collection: Dad
May you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung. May you stay forever young.Collection: Stars
Walkin' through the leaves fallin' from the trees, Feelin' like a stranger nobody sees.Collection: Tree
I don't need your organization, I've moved your mountains and I've marked you cards, but Eden is burning. You better get ready for elimination or else your hearts must have the courage of the changing of the guard.Collection: Religious
New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.Collection: New York
I bargained for salvation and they gave me a lethal dose.Collection: Religious
Abe said, where do you want this killing done? God said, out on highway 61.Collection: Religious
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
Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon -but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx -the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?Collection: Mean
Some are masters of illusions, some are ministers of trade, all under the same delusion, all their beds unmade.Collection: Art
People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young. Back then I guess most of my influences could be thought of as eccentric. Mass media had no overwhelming reach so I was drawn to the traveling performers passing through.Collection: Emotional
The woman I love she got a prize fighter nose, cauliflower ears and a run in her hose.Collection: Running
The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handleCollection: Pumps
The government's not going to create jobs. It doesn't have to. People have to create jobs.Collection: Jobs
If I could have any job in the world, I'd start out by writing a blog on Wired.com.Collection: Jobs