Bob Dylan Quotes
Robert Allen Zimmerman popularly known as Bob Dylan was born 24th May, 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota, United States. He is an American singer, songwriter, author, and visual artist. Bob Dylan is widely regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time.
Bob Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture for more than 50 years. Hailed as the Shakespeare of his generation, Bob Dylan sold tens of millions of albums and set the standard for lyric writing. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016.
In this article, we have compiled a collection of popular Bob Dylan quotes about life, love, memories and friendship.
70 Bob Dylan Quotes About Love, Life & Friendship
“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.”― Bob Dylan
“The future for me is already a thing of the past -You were my first love and you will be my last”― Bob Dylan
“Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that’s exactly the way we want it to be.”― Bob Dylan
“Gonna change my way of thinking, make my self a different set of rules. Gonna put my good foot forward and stop being influenced by fools.”― Bob Dylan
“No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.”― Bob Dylan
“If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.”― Bob Dylan
“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.”― Bob Dylan
“Act the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you’d like to act.”― Bob Dylan
“Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast”
― Bob Dylan
― 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
“The truth was obscure, Too profound and too pure, To live it you had to explode”― Bob Dylan
“You don’t have to be afraid of looking into my face. We’ve done nothing to each other that time will not erase.”― Bob Dylan
“the only thing i knew how to do was to keep on keeping on”― bob dylan
“I failed to communicate, that’s why I chose to leave”― Bob Dylan
“Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.”― Bob Dylan
“Whatever colors you have in your mind, I’ll show them to you and you’ll see them shine.”― Bob Dylan
“There is no equality. The only thing people all have in common is that they are all going to die.”
― Bob Dylan
― Bob Dylan
“Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free,
Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands”― Bob Dylan
Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands”― Bob Dylan
“New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.”― Bob Dylan
“When You Cease To Exist, Then Who Will You Blame?”― 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
“You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free”― Bob Dylan
“Who am I helping, what am I breaking, what am I giving, what am I taking?”― Bob Dylan
“I hate myself for loving you and the weakness that it showed. You were just a painted face on a trip down to suicide road.”― Bob Dylan
“I just don’t hear anyone else making the music I’m making in my head, so I’ll have to do it myself.”― Bob Dylan
“Beauty walks a razors edge, someday I’ll make it mine.”― Bob Dylan
“There’s no liquor in the land that can stop your brain from bleedin”― Bob Dylan
“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.”― Bob Dylan
“Behind every beautiful thing, there’s some kind of pain.”― Bob Dylan
“Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.”― Bob Dylan
“All I can be is me- whoever that is. ”― Bob Dylan
“Sometimes it’s not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don’t mean.”― Bob Dylan
“I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn’t allowed him to do or encouraged him to do.”― Bob Dylan
“May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung.”― Bob Dylan
“I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul…”― Bob Dylan
“DESTINY is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have in your own mind of what you’re about WILL COME TRUE. It’s a kind of a thing you kind of have to keep to your own self, because it’s a fragile feeling, and you put it out there, then someone will kill it. It’s best to keep that all inside.”― Bob Dylan
“It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be…”― Bob Dylan
“You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more”― Bob Dylan
“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…”― Bob Dylan
“I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.”― Bob Dylan
“You don’t necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they’re poets. I don’t call myself a poet, because I don’t like the word. I’m a trapeze artist.”― Bob Dylan
“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. ”― Bob Dylan
“You better start swimming, or you’ll sink like a stone. Because the Time’s they are a-changing.”
― Bob Dylan
― Bob Dylan
“The worth of things can’t be measured by what they cost but by what they 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.”― Bob Dylan
“They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.”― 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 been meek, and hard like an oak, i seen pretty people disappear like smoke. friends will arrive, friends will disappear. if you want me, honey baby, i’ll be here.”― bob dylan
“I was born very far from where I’m supposed to be, and so I’m on my way home.”― Bob Dylan
“Couldn’t help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land where justice is a game.”― Bob Dylan
“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 have got nothing to do with it. I’m thinking about the general people and when they get hurt.”
― Bob Dylan
― Bob Dylan
“And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns… that I would have to start believing in possibilities that I wouldn’t have allowed before, that I had been closing my creativity down to a very narrow, controllable scale… that things had become too familiar and I might have to disorientate myself. p.71”
― Bob Dylan
― Bob Dylan
“Why wait any longer for the one you love When he’s standing in front of you”― Bob Dylan
“You’ve got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down you just stood there a grinin”
― Bob Dylan
― Bob Dylan
“Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.”― Bob Dylan
“Walkin’ through the leaves fallin’ from the trees, Feelin’ like a stranger nobody sees…”
― Bob Dylan
― Bob Dylan
“All right, I’ll take a chance. I will fall in love with you. If i’m a fool you can have the night, you can have the morning too. Can you cook and sew. make flowers grow. Do you understand my pain? Are you willing to risk it all or is your love in vain?”― Bob Dylan
“There’s only one day at a time here, then it’s tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.”
― Bob Dylan
― Bob Dylan
“All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.”― Bob Dylan
“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.”
― Bob Dylan
― Bob Dylan
“People disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book. ”― Bob Dylan
“How does it feel, how does it feel to be without a home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone.”― Bob Dylan
“every pleasure’s got an edge of pain, pay your ticket and don’t complain”― Bob Dylan
“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”― 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
“You can never be wise and be in love at the same time.”― Bob Dylan
“When you’ve got nothing, you’ve got nothing to loose.”― Bob Dylan
“People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.”― Bob Dylan
“And I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.”― Bob Dylan
“I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours”― Bob Dylan
“I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.”― Bob Dylan