Bob Dylan

New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would…

— Bob Dylan

Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us.

— 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 ain't looking to compete with you, beat, or cheat, or mistreat you, simplify you, classify you, deny, defy, or crucify you.…

— Bob Dylan

You know, sometimes a person's reputation can be far more colossal than the influence of the person. I don't pay any attention…

— Bob Dylan

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the…

— Bob Dylan

I really don't like to hurt myself. I have a good understanding with all the women who have been in my life,…

— Bob Dylan

Well, it's always been my nature to take chances My right hand drawing back while my left hand advances

— Bob Dylan

Happiness is not on my list of priorities. I just deal with day-to-day things. If I'm happy, I'm happy – and if…

— Bob Dylan

It's not me, it's the songs. I'm just the postman, I deliver the songs. When I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew…

— Bob Dylan

Opportunities may come along for you to convert something -something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning…

— Bob Dylan

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and…

— Bob Dylan

“All I'd ever done was sing songs that were dead straight and expressed powerful new realities. I had very little in common…

— Bob Dylan

There's not even room enough to be anywhere/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.../I was born here and I'll die here…

— Bob Dylan

You have to look at every one of your songs and be able to identify with them in a meaningful way. You…

— Bob Dylan

I don't know if I call myself a poet or not. I would like to, but I'm not really qualified to make…

— Bob Dylan

“James Joyce seemed like the most arrogant man who ever lived, had both his eyes wide open and great faculty of speech,…

— Bob Dylan

Stay free of petty jealousies, live by no man's code, and hold your judgment for yourself, lest you wind up on this…

— Bob Dylan

I like spiritual songs. They struck me as truthful and serious. They brought me down to earth and they lifted me up…

— Bob Dylan

There doesn't seem to be any tomorrow. Every time I wake up, no matter in what position, it's always been today.

— Bob Dylan

Art can lead you to God. I think that's the purpose of everything. If it's not doing that, what's it doing? It's…

— Bob Dylan

I gaze into the doorway of temptation's angry flame And every time I pass that way I always hear my name

— Bob Dylan

They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs, or their wives.

— Bob Dylan

The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie. Then you're all the time defending what you can…

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

Ah, current music. What would that be? Ah, really, a lot of it sounds defective to me. It makes me restless.

— Bob Dylan

It's sundown on the Union and what's made in the USA, sure was a good idea, until greed got in the way.

— Bob Dylan

You five and ten cent women with nothing in your heads, I got a real gal I'm loving and Lord I'll love…

— Bob Dylan

My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited…

— Bob Dylan

I was lookin' high an' low for them Reds everywhere, I was lookin' in the sink an' underneath the chair. I looked…

— Bob Dylan

There's danger in this open world where men strive to be free, and to me the greatest danger was in society.

— Bob Dylan

The good Samaritan, he's getting dressed, he's getting ready for the show. He's going to the carnival tonight on Desolation Row.

— Bob Dylan

For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.

— Bob Dylan

Well the Lone Ranger and Tonto, they are riding down the line fixing everybody's troubles, everybody except mine.

— Bob Dylan

My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip, my toes to numb to step, wait only for my boot…

— Bob Dylan

Johnny's in the basement Mixing up the medicine I'm on the pavement Thinking 'bout the government.

— Bob Dylan

I am hanging in the balance of a perfect finished plan, like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand.

— Bob Dylan

Just in time for Bob Dylan to recoil from the attention, leave the city for Woodstock, and turn his back on fame.

— Bob Dylan

I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes. You'd know what a drag it is to see…

— Bob Dylan

Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder

— Bob Dylan