Quotes By Bob Dylan

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.

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

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

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

I'm sick of giving creeps money off my soul.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

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

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

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.

I can't act!

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

The people in my songs are all me.