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Bob Dylan
Quotes by Bob Dylan
Quotes by Bob Dylan
“What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
Bob Dylan
“A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.”
Bob Dylan
“People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.”
Bob Dylan
“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.”
Bob Dylan
“All I can do is be me, whoever that is.”
Bob Dylan
“Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.”
Bob Dylan
“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.”
Bob Dylan
“All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.”
Bob Dylan
“Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.”
Bob Dylan
“A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.”
Bob Dylan
“Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.”
Bob Dylan
“All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.”
Bob Dylan
“Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.”
Bob Dylan
“At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.”
Bob Dylan
“I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.”
Bob Dylan
“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.”
Bob Dylan
“He not busy being born is busy dying.”
Bob Dylan
“You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we're just going to be gone. The world's going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.”
Bob Dylan
“I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.”
Bob Dylan
“No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.”
Bob Dylan
“I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.”
Bob Dylan
“To live outside the law, you must be honest.”
Bob Dylan
“Chaos is a friend of mine.”
Bob Dylan
“I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.”
Bob Dylan
“Money doesn't talk, it swears.”
Bob Dylan
“People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.”
Bob Dylan
“Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.”
Bob Dylan
“A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.”
Bob Dylan
“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
