Quotes By Bob Dylan

I'm speaking for all of us. I'm the spokesman for a generation.

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.

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.

I think I have a dualistic nature.

In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.

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.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.

I kinda live where I find myself.

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

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.

A lot of people don't like the road, but it's as natural to me as breathing.

I'm more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

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.

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

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

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

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.

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.

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.