Quotes By Bob Dylan

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.

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

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

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

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

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

I kinda live where I find myself.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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 can't stand to see myself on television.

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

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.

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.

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.

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'm not a playwright.