Song Quotes by Bob Dylan

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

— Bob Dylan

May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung.

— Bob Dylan

I do know what my songs are about.

— Bob Dylan

Nothing can affect my voice, it's so bad.

— Bob Dylan

My big fear was that my guitar would go out of tune.

— Bob Dylan

The people in my songs are all me.

— Bob Dylan

I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams.

— Bob Dylan

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

— Bob Dylan

If you don't have to write songs, why write them? I've got enough where I don't really feel the urge to write…

— Bob Dylan

Once you think you know the song, then you have go and see how other people have done it.

— Bob Dylan

The Harmonica is the world’s best-selling musical instrument. You’re welcome.

— Bob Dylan

Once I went into songwriting, I figured I had to - I couldn't be a hellfire rock 'n' roller. But I could…

— Bob Dylan

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen…

— Bob Dylan

Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem.

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.

— Bob Dylan

"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

There would be brilliant songs, but, as [Bob] Dylan admitted on the recent Martin Scorsese documentary about him (No Direction Home), the…

— Bob Dylan

Heard ten thousand whispering and nobody listening. Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughing. Heard the song of a poet…

— Bob Dylan

The song was there before me, before I came along. I just sorta came down and just sorta took it down with…

— Bob Dylan

If you told the truth, that was all well and good and if you told the un-truth, well, that's still well and…

— Bob Dylan

Once I can focus in on something, I just play it in my mind until an idea comes from out of nowhere,…

— Bob Dylan

After becoming famous once again - a 1976 song, "Hurricane," even marked a return to protest songwriting - [Bob] Dylan got addicted…

— Bob Dylan

And I’ll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it And reflect it from the mountain so all souls…

— Bob Dylan

I never did use earphones until into the Eighties or Nineties. I don't like to use earphones. I've never heard anybody sing…

— Bob Dylan

A brilliant 1989 album, Oh Mercy; some career retrospectives; and two albums of American folk songs, with just Bob Dylan and his…

— Bob Dylan

I'm good with songs I haven't written, if I like them. I'm glad I didn't write any of them. I already know…

— Bob Dylan

The purpose of music is to elevate the spirit and inspire. Not to help push some product down your throat. It puts…

— Bob Dylan

You travel the world, you go see different things. I like to see Shakespeare plays, so I'll go - I mean, even…

— Bob Dylan

Technology is mechanical and contrary to the emotions that inform a person's life. The country music field has especially been hit hard…

— Bob Dylan

“I've got to know that I'm singing something with truth to it. My songs are different than anybody else's songs. Other artists…

— Bob Dylan

Being singer is different than being an actor, where you call up sources from your own experience that you can apply to…

— Bob Dylan

“I was always fishing for something on the radio. Just like trains and bells, it was part of the soundtrack of my…

— 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

I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul...

— Bob Dylan

I don't write the songs; I just write 'em down.

— Bob Dylan

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

— Bob Dylan

Music attracts the angels in the universe.

— Bob Dylan

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.

— Bob Dylan

Bob has never written a bad song. Bob Dylan is a genius.

— Bob Dylan