Quotes By Bob Dylan

Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.

I'm mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it's the only place where I'm happy.

I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something.

Some formulas are too complex and I don't want anything to do with them.

I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself.

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

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

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.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.

I stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed... so drastically, I couldn't believe it myself.

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

It's not easy to define poetry.

What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.

I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.

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.

I'm inconsistent, even to myself.

It's hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.

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

I don't think I'm tangible to myself.