Quotes By Bob Dylan

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

My range is limited.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

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

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

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

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.

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.

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

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.

It's not easy to define poetry.

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

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