--- title: "32 Want Quotes By Bob Dylan" description: "32 Want quotes by Bob Dylan. Plus more from Bob Dylan and more Want sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c04/bob-dylan-168_dylan_life-is-more-or-less-a-lie-but-then-agai_1561492.jpg" --- > [Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/life-is-more-or-less-a-lie-but-then-again-that-s-exactly-the-way-we/) [Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c04/bob-dylan-168_dylan_life-is-more-or-less-a-lie-but-then-agai_1561492.jpg) > [If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/if-you-want-to-keep-your-memories-you-first-have-to-live-them/) [Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/443/bob-dylan-168_firsts_if-you-want-to-keep-your-memories-you-fi_1176542.jpg) > [You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/you-call-yourself-what-you-want-to-call-yourself-this-is-the-land-of/) [Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/654/bob-dylan-168_freedom_you-call-yourself-what-you-want-to-call_924863.jpg) > [There's a wall between you and what you want and you got to leap it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/there-s-a-wall-between-you-and-what-you-want-and-you-got-to-leap-it/) [Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/50c/bob-dylan-168_desire_there-s-a-wall-between-you-and-what-you_397093.jpg) > [Some formulas are too complex and I don't want anything to do with them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/some-formulas-are-too-complex-and-i-don-t-want-anything-to-do-with/) [Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/046/bob-dylan-168_anything_some-formulas-are-too-complex-and-i-don_1514189.jpg) > [Abe said, where do you want this killing done? God said, out on highway 61.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/abe-said-where-do-you-want-this-killing-done-god-said-out-on-highway/) [Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dbe/bob-dylan-168_abe_abe-said-where-do-you-want-this-killing_530555.jpg) > [You call yourself what you want to call yourself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/you-call-yourself-what-you-want-to-call-yourself/) [Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/830/bob-dylan-168_call_you-call-yourself-what-you-want-to-call_1208202.jpg) > [People do whatever they want to do, y'know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/people-do-whatever-they-want-to-do-y-know/) [Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/488/bob-dylan-168_knows_people-do-whatever-they-want-to-do-y-kno_2027298.jpg) > [Well, I try my best to be just like I am, But everybody wants you to be just like them, They sing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/well-i-try-my-best-to-be-just-like-i-am-but-everybody-wants-you-to-be/) [Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bd6/bob-dylan-168_bored_well-i-try-my-best-to-be-just-like-i-am_263191.jpg) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/even-if-you-don-t-have-all-the-things-you-want-be-grateful-for-the/) [Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/040/bob-dylan-168_be-grateful_even-if-you-don-t-have-all-the-things-yo_1440204.jpg) > [I'm a liberal to a degree, I want everybody to be free. But if you think that I'll let Barry Goldwater move…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/i-m-a-liberal-to-a-degree-i-want-everybody-to-be-free-but-if-you/) [Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ff/bob-dylan-168_degrees_i-m-a-liberal-to-a-degree-i-want-everybo_389179.jpg) > [The man in the coon skin cap in the pig pen wants eleven dollar bills, you've only got ten.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/the-man-in-the-coon-skin-cap-in-the-pig-pen-wants-eleven-dollar-bills/) [Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/57c/bob-dylan-168_bills_the-man-in-the-coon-skin-cap-in-the-pig_37895.jpg) > [i been meek, and hard like an oak, i seen pretty people disappear like smoke. friends will arrive, friends will disappear. if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/i-been-meek-and-hard-like-an-oak-i-seen-pretty-people-disappear-like/) [Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03f/bob-dylan-168_baby_i-been-meek-and-hard-like-an-oak-i-seen_3095839.jpg) > [You want to know about creativity? Just go out and buy that book Imagine by Jonah Lehrer. It's only $29.00 in hardcover.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/you-want-to-know-about-creativity-just-go-out-and-buy-that-book/) [Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/625/bob-dylan-168_book_you-want-to-know-about-creativity-just-g_2317705.jpg) > [God is in heaven, and we all want what's his. But power and greed and corruptible seed seem to be all that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/god-is-in-heaven-and-we-all-want-what-s-his-but-power-and-greed-and/) [Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dfa/bob-dylan-168_greed_god-is-in-heaven-and-we-all-want-what-s_958712.jpg) > [If you want to know how to please a woman, just talk to a neuroscience major from Columbia.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/if-you-want-to-know-how-to-please-a-woman-just-talk-to-a-neuroscience/) [Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b76/bob-dylan-168_columbia_if-you-want-to-know-how-to-please-a-woma_1206667.jpg) > [My songs are personal music, they're not communal. I wouldn't want people singing along with me. It would sound funny. I'm not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/my-songs-are-personal-music-they-re-not-communal-i-wouldn-t-want/) [Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b2e/bob-dylan-168_campfire_my-songs-are-personal-music-they-re-not_2908963.jpg) > [Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/come-you-masters-of-war-you-that-build-all-the-guns-you-that-build/) [Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/914/bob-dylan-168_anti-war_come-you-masters-of-war-you-that-build-a_1704036.jpg) > [You have to look at every one of your songs and be able to identify with them in a meaningful way. You…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/you-have-to-look-at-every-one-of-your-songs-and-be-able-to-identify/) [Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a57/bob-dylan-168_able_you-have-to-look-at-every-one-of-your-so_1716797.jpg) > [Oh, God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son" Abe said, "Man, you must be puttin' me on" God said, "No" Abe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/oh-god-said-to-abraham-kill-me-a-son-abe-said-man-you-must-be-puttin/) [Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a8/bob-dylan-168_abe_oh-god-said-to-abraham-kill-me-a-son-abe_2560766.jpg) > [If you like someone's work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to. Anyone who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/if-you-like-someone-s-work-the-important-thing-is-to-be-exposed-to/) [Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f2/bob-dylan-168_exposed_if-you-like-someone-s-work-the-important_3075271.jpg) > [There's a lot of false prophets around and that's the trouble. People say they think they know what's right and other people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/there-s-a-lot-of-false-prophets-around-and-that-s-the-trouble-people/) [Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e89/bob-dylan-168_certain_there-s-a-lot-of-false-prophets-around-a_1562547.jpg) > [I ain't looking to compete with you, beat, or cheat, or mistreat you, simplify you, classify you, deny, defy, or crucify you.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/i-ain-t-looking-to-compete-with-you-beat-or-cheat-or-mistreat-you/) [Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33d/bob-dylan-168_baby_i-ain-t-looking-to-compete-with-you-beat_1601303.jpg) > [There's enough songs for people to listen to, if they want to listen to songs. For every man, woman and child on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/there-s-enough-songs-for-people-to-listen-to-if-they-want-to-listen/) [Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb9/bob-dylan-168_children_there-s-enough-songs-for-people-to-liste_2052665.jpg) > [Opportunities may come along for you to convert something -something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/opportunities-may-come-along-for-you-to-convert-something-something-2/) [Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/82d/bob-dylan-168_behinds_opportunities-may-come-along-for-you-to_3020740.jpg) > [Folk songs are evasive-the truth about life, and life is more or less a lie, but then again that's exactly the way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/folk-songs-are-evasive-the-truth-about-life-and-life-is-more-or-less/) [Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b1d/bob-dylan-168_comfortable_folk-songs-are-evasive-the-truth-about-l_1478208.jpg) > [I want to use songs that everybody knows or thinks they know. I want to show them a different side of it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/i-want-to-use-songs-that-everybody-knows-or-thinks-they-know-i-want/) [Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/023/bob-dylan-168_believe_i-want-to-use-songs-that-everybody-knows_1657298.jpg) > [I was sick of the way my lyrics had been extrapolated, their meanings subverted into polemics and that I had been anointed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/i-was-sick-of-the-way-my-lyrics-had-been-extrapolated-their-meanings/) [Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7de/bob-dylan-168_anarchy_i-was-sick-of-the-way-my-lyrics-had-been_1982494.jpg) > [A lot of people from the press want to talk to me, but they never do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/a-lot-of-people-from-the-press-want-to-talk-to-me-but-they-never-do/) [Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f6/bob-dylan-168_journalism_a-lot-of-people-from-the-press-want-to-t_2839245.jpg) > [God said: "Abraham, kill me a son. Abe said: "Man, you must be putting me on." God said: "No." Abe said: "What"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/god-said-abraham-kill-me-a-son-abe-said-man-you-must-be-putting-me-on/) [Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/099/bob-dylan-168_abe_god-said-abraham-kill-me-a-son-abe-said_2558664.jpg) > [You swore you'd never compromise With the mystery tramp, but now you realise He's not selling any alibis As you stare into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/you-swore-you-d-never-compromise-with-the-mystery-tramp-but-now-you/) [Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/480/bob-dylan-168_alibis_you-swore-you-d-never-compromise-with-th_2904570.jpg) > [People think that singing and playing is easy. It's not. It's easy to strum along, but if you actually want to really…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/people-think-that-singing-and-playing-is-easy-it-s-not-it-s-easy-to/) [Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da2/bob-dylan-168_easy_people-think-that-singing-and-playing-is_2971890.jpg) ## Other authors on Want ## More by Bob Dylan > [The hollow horn plays wasted words, proves to warn that he not busy being born is busy dying.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/the-hollow-horn-plays-wasted-words-proves-to-warn-that-he-not-busy/) [Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/) > [Don't forget to support your public library.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/don-t-forget-to-support-your-public-library/) [Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/) > [You don't count the dead, when god's on your side.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/you-don-t-count-the-dead-when-god-s-on-your-side/) [Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/) > [She makes love just like a woman.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/she-makes-love-just-like-a-woman/) [Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/) > [Silvio, I gotta go, find out something only dead men know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/silvio-i-gotta-go-find-out-something-only-dead-men-know/) [Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/) > [I don't really have a retirement plan.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/i-don-t-really-have-a-retirement-plan/) [Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/just-a-reminder-if-you-tell-anyone-about-what-happened-with-jonah/) [Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/) > [Little red wagon, little red bike, I ain’t no monkey but I know what I like.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/little-red-wagon-little-red-bike-i-ain-t-no-monkey-but-i-know-what-i/) [Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/) > [Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift - look out out kid, they keep it all hid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/twenty-years-of-schooling-and-they-put-you-on-the-day-shift-look-out/) [Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/) > [The drunken politician leaps upon the street where mothers weep, and the saviors who are fast asleep, they wait for you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/the-drunken-politician-leaps-upon-the-street-where-mothers-weep-and/) [Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/) > [Your eyes are like two jewels in the sky.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/your-eyes-are-like-two-jewels-in-the-sky/) [Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/) > [I gotta friend who spends his life, stabbing my picture with a bowie knife. Dreams of strangling me with a scarf, when my name…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/i-gotta-friend-who-spends-his-life-stabbing-my-picture-with-a-bowie/) [Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/she-speaks-with-a-stutter-and-she-and-she-walks-with-a-hop-i-don-t/) [Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/) > [The man in the coon skin cap in the pig pen wants eleven dollar bills, you've only got ten.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/the-man-in-the-coon-skin-cap-in-the-pig-pen-wants-eleven-dollar-bills/) [Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/) > [Don't put my faith in nobody, not even a scientist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/don-t-put-my-faith-in-nobody-not-even-a-scientist/) [Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-dylan/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/want/bob-dylan/#itemlist", "name": "32 Want Quotes By Bob Dylan", "numberOfItems": 32, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bob Dylan" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/life-is-more-or-less-a-lie-but-then-again-that-s-exactly-the-way-we/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c04/bob-dylan-168_dylan_life-is-more-or-less-a-lie-but-then-agai_1561492.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c04/bob-dylan-168_dylan_life-is-more-or-less-a-lie-but-then-agai_1561492.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c04/bob-dylan-168_dylan_life-is-more-or-less-a-lie-but-then-agai_1561492.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.” — Bob Dylan", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bob Dylan" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-dylan/if-you-want-to-keep-your-memories-you-first-have-to-live-them/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/443/bob-dylan-168_firsts_if-you-want-to-keep-your-memories-you-fi_1176542.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/443/bob-dylan-168_firsts_if-you-want-to-keep-your-memories-you-fi_1176542.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/443/bob-dylan-168_firsts_if-you-want-to-keep-your-memories-you-fi_1176542.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.” — Bob Dylan", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "You call yourself what you want to call yourself. 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