Bob Dylan Quotes

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“When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks.”

“If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure”

“It frightens me the awful truth of how sweet life can be.”

“every pleasure's got an edge of pain, pay your ticket and don't complain”

“Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want (Bob Dylan's dad)”

“You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more”

“Sundown yellow moon I replay the past
I know every scene by heart they all went by so fast”

“Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you'd like to act.”

“How does it feel? To be on your own, with no direction home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone?”

“You're gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you're gonna have to serve somebody…”

“Chaos is a friend of mine.”

“Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul”

“When you asked me how I was doing, was that some kind of joke”

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

“It's a wicked life, but what the hell, the stars ain't falling down.”

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

“The truth was obscure,
Too profound and too pure,
To live it you had to explode”

“You don't have to be afraid of looking into my face. We've done nothing to each other that time will not erase.”

“Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles.”

“I'm 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.”

“It's like my whole life never happened,
When I see you, it's as if I never had a thought.
I know this dream, it might be crazy,
But it's the only one I've got.”

“May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young.”

“There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate, so let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.”

“the only thing i knew how to do was to keep on keeping on”

“All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie”

“I failed to communicate, that's why I chose to leave”

“Money doesn't talk, it swears.”

“If ever asked to look at yourself, don't.”

“Then you better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’.”

“Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're trying to be so quiet.”

“Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.”

“There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.”

“She never stumbles,
she's got no place to fall.
She's nobody's child,
the law can't touch her at all.”

“The worth of things can't be measured by what they cost but by what the cost you to get it, that if anything costs you your faith or your family, then the price is too high, and that there are some things that will never wear out.”

“Whatever colors you have in your mind. I'll show them to you and you'll see them shine.”

“Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.”

“Democracy don't rule the world; you'd better get that in your head. This world is ruled by violence.”

“I was walking through the leaves Falling from the trees.
Feelin' like a stranger nobody sees.”

“There is no equality. The only thing people all have in common is that they are all going to die.”

“I didn't come out of a cereal box.”

“Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free.”

“a poem is a naked person... some people say that I am a poet”

“Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.”

“You got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down, you just stood there grinning.”

“let me forget about today until tomorrow”

“Why wait any longer for the one you love
When he’s standing in front of you”

“There's no liquor in the land that can stop your brain from bleedin”

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

“But if the arrow is straight
And the point is slick
It can pierce through dust no matter how thick”