"Like a Rolling Stone" [of Bob Dylan] is a kiss-off song like none before or since. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
[Bob] Dylan's broken-heart songs are so much better. Like "Simple Twist of Fate". — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
[Bob Dylan] was rarely tender and seldom reached out to anticipate another's needs. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Somebody had to be Bob Dylan. I guess I was best equipped to do the job. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Whatever that ["transfiguration" by Bob Dylan] means, it's true that the poetic brilliance of the early career would never really reappear. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan was again an entirely new person - this time old, craggy, cynical, and world-weary, as in "Not Dark Yet". — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“I'm just average, common too. I'm just like him and the same as you. I'm everybody's brother and son. I'm no different… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan wrote in his elliptical memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, he was washed up in the 1980s, no longer a commercial success,… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Just in time for Bob Dylan to recoil from the attention, leave the city for Woodstock, and turn his back on fame. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
If you wanted to, it would be easy to find some crappy lyrics [of Bob Dylan] from the Eighties to undermine the… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
In the meantime [1965-67], [Bob] Dylan was again writing some of the best love songs in the genre, like "Visions of Johanna,"… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
In 1975,Bob Dylan was almost 10 years past his prime - and then he released the best album of his career, Blood… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
The confessional singer-songwriter movement of the 1970s was in full swing, and Bob Dylan's emotional album [ Blood on the Tracks] resonated… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I'd been going though his trash. He knocked me down. I was glad to see him, even though he was banging my… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Along with some of the worst music of Bob Dylan's career ("Self-Portrait," 1970), this period produced some gems - including many songs… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
With your silhouette when the sunlight dims Into your eyes where the moonlight swims, And your match-book songs and your gypsy hymns,… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
The "joker" here ["All Along the Watchtower" ] is the older [Bob] Dylan himself, whining about exploitation, and the thief's rejoinder re-contextualizes… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
There were only a few seats left in coach and Bob found himself seated next to a young female fan. 'I can't… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
The exploitation and superficiality of mainstream America is the object not of [Bob] Dylan's hipster scorn, but of an apocalyptic parable of… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“Well, I’ve been to London and I’ve been to gay Paris I’ve followed the river and I got to the sea I’ve… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
One night around that time, at Hammersmith, Bob Dylan was about to go into [his 1963 classic] 'Don't Think Twice, It's Alright.He… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“I had no songs in my repertoire for commercial radio anyway. Songs about debauched bootleggers, mothers that drowned their own children, Cadillacs… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
[Bob] Dylan crashed his motorcycle in 1967, and almost died. A few years ago, he referred to the experience as a "transfiguration." — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
"Subterranean Homesick Blues" [of Bob Dylan] captures, in word-salad format, life in an encroaching police state. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
they say every man needs protection, they say every man must fall. yet I swear I see my reflection,some place high above… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
"Tangled Up in Blue," shifts perspective several times during the song to tell a "tangled" version of [Bob] Dylan's marriage and dissolution. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Back seat drivers don’t know the feel of the wheel but they sho’ know how to make a fuss" Bob Dylan/Bonnie Raitt,… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“I'm trying to get as far way from myself as I can….from Things Have Changed by Bob Dylan (not a book but… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan wasn't a big star early on; it was the release of his Greatest Hits album in 1967, and the mainstream… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
After becoming famous once again - a 1976 song, "Hurricane," even marked a return to protest songwriting - [Bob] Dylan got addicted… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Popular music had never had lyrical sophistication of this type [like Bob Dylan]; wit, to be sure, but "Darkness at the break… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
In the dime stores and bus stations People talk of situations Read books, repeat quotations Draw conclusions on the wall Some speak… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
The hollow horn plays wasted words, proves to warn that he not busy being born is busy dying. — Bob Dylan Copy Share
Just a reminder, if you tell anyone about what happened with Jonah last night, I'll destroy all of my writing and never play music… — Bob Dylan Copy Share
Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift - look out out kid, they keep it all hid — Bob Dylan Copy Share
The drunken politician leaps upon the street where mothers weep, and the saviors who are fast asleep, they wait for you. — Bob Dylan Copy Share
I gotta friend who spends his life, stabbing my picture with a bowie knife. Dreams of strangling me with a scarf, when my name… — Bob Dylan Copy Share
She speaks with a stutter and she and she walks with a hop. I don't know why I love her, but I just can't… — Bob Dylan Copy Share
The man in the coon skin cap in the pig pen wants eleven dollar bills, you've only got ten. — Bob Dylan Copy Share
![“His [Bob Dylan] humour was dry and splendid.” quote by Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab3/bob-dylan-168_bob_his-bob-dylan-humour-was-dry-and-splendi_1390164.jpg)
![“"Like a Rolling Stone" [of Bob Dylan] is a kiss-off song like none before or since.” quote by Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/882/bob-dylan-168_bob_like-a-rolling-stone-of-bob-dylan-is-a-k_2497559.jpg)
![“Ironically, this was Bob Dylan's period [1967-74] of greatest fame.” quote by Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d91/bob-dylan-168_bob_ironically-this-was-bob-dylan-s-period-1_2972149.jpg)
![“[Bob] Dylan's broken-heart songs are so much better. Like "Simple Twist of Fate".” quote by Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a9a/bob-dylan-168_better_bob-dylan-s-broken-heart-songs-are-so-mu_840031.jpg)
![“[Bob Dylan] was rarely tender and seldom reached out to anticipate another's needs.” quote by Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/05b/bob-dylan-168_anticipate_bob-dylan-was-rarely-tender-and-seldom-r_2783957.jpg)
![“Whatever that ["transfiguration" by Bob Dylan] means, it's true that the poetic brilliance of the early career would never really reappear.” quote by Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d94/bob-dylan-168_bob_whatever-that-transfiguration-by-bob-dyl_1324101.jpg)
![“If you wanted to, it would be easy to find some crappy lyrics [of Bob Dylan] from the Eighties to undermine the Nobel Prize.” quote by Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/99f/bob-dylan-168_bob_if-you-wanted-to-it-would-be-easy-to-fin_813459.jpg)
![“In the meantime [1965-67], [Bob] Dylan was again writing some of the best love songs in the genre, like "Visions of Johanna," "Just Like a Woman," and "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands."” quote by Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a8/bob-dylan-168_best-love_in-the-meantime-1965-67-bob-dylan-was-ag_444545.jpg)
![“The confessional singer-songwriter movement of the 1970s was in full swing, and Bob Dylan's emotional album [ Blood on the Tracks] resonated with the times. There would be other hits, but never the same alchemy of emotion and time.” quote by Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/852/bob-dylan-168_albums_the-confessional-singer-songwriter-movem_418121.jpg)
![“The "joker" here ["All Along the Watchtower" ] is the older [Bob] Dylan himself, whining about exploitation, and the thief's rejoinder re-contextualizes the earlier critique into the religious frames that would become more prominent as time went on.” quote by Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e71/bob-dylan-168_bob_the-joker-here-all-along-the-watchtower_384180.jpg)
![“The exploitation and superficiality of mainstream America is the object not of [Bob] Dylan's hipster scorn, but of an apocalyptic parable of holy fools and righteous thieves - the kind of imagery that Dylan's later work would explore more fully.” quote by Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e6/bob-dylan-168_america_the-exploitation-and-superficiality-of-m_988105.jpg)
![“One night around that time, at Hammersmith, Bob Dylan was about to go into [his 1963 classic] 'Don't Think Twice, It's Alright.He said, 'Hey, Bucky! Play mandolin on this.' I am not really a mandolin player; I could only play in certain keys. Halfway through, he stops the band, turns to the…” quote by Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/717/bob-dylan-168_alright_one-night-around-that-time-at-hammersmit_2648436.jpg)
![“[Bob] Dylan crashed his motorcycle in 1967, and almost died. A few years ago, he referred to the experience as a "transfiguration."” quote by Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/16e/bob-dylan-168_bob_bob-dylan-crashed-his-motorcycle-in-1967_811861.jpg)
![“"Subterranean Homesick Blues" [of Bob Dylan] captures, in word-salad format, life in an encroaching police state.” quote by Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c4/bob-dylan-168_bob_subterranean-homesick-blues-of-bob-dylan_550490.jpg)
![“"Tangled Up in Blue," shifts perspective several times during the song to tell a "tangled" version of [Bob] Dylan's marriage and dissolution.” quote by Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/173/bob-dylan-168_blue_tangled-up-in-blue-shifts-perspective-se_1125628.jpg)
![“After becoming famous once again - a 1976 song, "Hurricane," even marked a return to protest songwriting - [Bob] Dylan got addicted to drugs, found Jesus, left Jesus, and put out a lot of swill.” quote by Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e03/bob-dylan-168_becoming_after-becoming-famous-once-again-a-1976_1498264.jpg)
![“Popular music had never had lyrical sophistication of this type [like Bob Dylan]; wit, to be sure, but "Darkness at the break of noon/Shadows even the silver spoon/The handmade blade, the child's balloon/Eclipses both the sun and moon/To understand you know too soon/ There is no sense in trying"?…” quote by Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d66/bob-dylan-168_balloons_popular-music-had-never-had-lyrical-soph_1402473.jpg)
