Bob Dylan Quotes

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.

The people in my songs are all me.

There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I'm trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politics. They has got nothing to do with it. I'm thinking about the general people and when they get hurt.

I kinda live where I find myself.

How many times can a man turn his head pretending he just doesn't see?

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul [Minnesota] in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language.

You can't be wise and in love at the same time.

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

You ain't worth the blood that runs in your veins.

I wanted just a song to sing, and there came a certain point where I couldn't sing anything. So I had to write what I wanted to sing 'cos nobody else was writing what I wanted to sing.

All the money you made will never buy back your soul.

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

I am a writer an a singer of the words I write I am no speaker nor any politician an my songs speak for me because I write them in the confinement of my own mind an have t cope with no one except my own self.

What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not threatening—all bunk. No guarantees of anything, not even the guarantee that life isn't one big joke.

How many times must a man look up before he can see the sky?