Quotes By Bob Dylan

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

Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere.

I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.

I can't stand to see myself on television.

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

The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.

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 learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

You can't do something forever.

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.

I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

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 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.

Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.

I'm not a playwright.

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

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

The radio makes hideous sounds.

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

It's not easy to define poetry.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

I really didn't consider myself happy or unhappy.

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

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

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.