Bob Dylan Quotes

Quotes about:

• No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

  Bob Dylan

  Freedom, Hippie, I Hate You

  24 Copy

• I’m in awe of McCartney. He’s about the only one that I am in awe of. He can do it all. And he’s never let up... He’s just so damn effortless.

  Bob Dylan

  Damn, Awe, Effortless

  "Bob Dylan on Old America and 'Modern Times'". Interview with Jann S. Wenner, www.rollingstone.com. May 3, 2007.

  3 Copy

• I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

  Bob Dylan

  Music, Folks, Folk Music

  Bob Dylan (2007). “Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews”, Hodder & Stoughton

  16 Copy

• 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

  Strong, Growing Up, Light

  Song: Forever Young, Album: Planet Waves, 1974

  165 Copy
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  All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

  Bob Dylan

  Bullying, Purpose, Can Do

  Bob Dylan (2007). “Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews”, Hodder & Stoughton

  121 Copy

• Technology to wipe out truth is now available. Not everybody can afford it but it's available. When the cost comes down, look out!

  Bob Dylan

  Technology, Looks, Cost

  6 Copy

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

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Heart, May

  Song: Forever Young

  7 Copy

• We have never arrived. We are in a constant state of becoming.

  Bob Dylan

  Yoga, Becoming, States

  11 Copy

• Don't criticize what you can't understand.

  Bob Dylan

  Education, Song, Criticism

  The Times They Are A-Changing (1964 song)

  14 Copy

• All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

  Bob Dylan

  Death, Work, Equality

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  12 Copy

• People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

  Bob Dylan

  Life, Break Up, Music

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  96 Copy

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

  Bob Dylan

  Courage, Freedom, Hero

  Interview published with the "Biograph" album set, 1985.

  45 Copy

• If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

  Bob Dylan

  Inspirational, Positive, Memories

  132 Copy
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  Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

  Bob Dylan

  Sunglasses, Biting, Lips

  Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

  227 Copy

• The purpose of art is to stop time.

  Bob Dylan

  Life, Time, Art

  17 Copy

• If you need somebody you can trust, trust yourself

  Bob Dylan

  Needs, Trust Yourself, Adages

  Song: Trust Yourself, Album: Empire Burlesque, 1985

  54 Copy

• Steal a little and they throw you in jail Steal a lot and they make you king.

  Bob Dylan

  Kings, Jail, Politics

  "Sweetheart Like You". Song by Bob Dylan, bobdylan.com. 1983.

  31 Copy

• Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.

  Bob Dylan

  Inspirational, Two, People

  19 Copy

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

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Sound, Records

  "Bob Dylan Talks: A Raw and Extensive First Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Jann S. Wenner, www.rollingstone.com. November 29, 1969.

  8 Copy

• 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 I'm not, I don't know the difference... Knowing that you are the person you were put on this earth to be – that's much more important than just being happy.

  Bob Dylan

  Knowing, Differences, Priorities

  "Bob Dylan at Fifty". Interview with Mikal Gilmore, www.rollingstone.com. May 30, 1991.

  15 Copy

• People are crazy and times are strange ... I used to care but things have changed

  Bob Dylan

  Crazy, People, Care

  15 Copy

• Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

  Bob Dylan

  Sad, Beautiful, Pain

  77 Copy

• What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

  Bob Dylan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  133 Copy

• All the money you made will never buy back your soul.

  Bob Dylan

  Soul, Made, Your Soul

  Song: Masters Of War, Album: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, 1963

  29 Copy

• ..When I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody ... hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail

  Bob Dylan

  Music, Jail, Busting Out

  6 Copy

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