Top 55 Bob Dylan Quotes

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

I’m sick of giving creeps money off my soul.

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn’t call himself a poet.

I can’t act!

I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.

Being on tour is like being in limbo. It’s like going from nowhere to nowhere.

You can’t do something forever.

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

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

I’m not a playwright.

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

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

My range is limited.

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

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

Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.

It’s not easy to define poetry.

I am 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.

I think I have a dualistic nature.

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

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

I kinda live where I find myself.

The radio makes hideous sounds.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

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.

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

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

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

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

I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

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

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

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.

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

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

It’s hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

A poem is a naked person… Some people say that I am a poet.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself.

I’m speaking for all of us. I’m the spokesman for a generation.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

I can’t stand to see myself on television.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

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

Chaos is a friend of mine.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

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

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

A lot of people don’t like the road, but it’s as natural to me as breathing.

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.

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