Bob Dylan quotes

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

“ I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds. ”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

“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. ”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

“If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself. ”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

“The radio makes hideous sounds. ”

— Bob Dylan

“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. ”

— 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. ”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

“You can't be happy by doing something groovy. ”

— Bob Dylan

“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. ”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

“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.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

“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. ”

— Bob Dylan

“I really didn't consider myself happy or unhappy. ”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

“I'm inconsistent, even to myself. ”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan