Bob Dylan Quotes - Page 10

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• I used to play hockey when I was growing up. Everyone sort of learns how to skate and play hockey at an early age.

  Bob Dylan

  Growing Up, Hockey, Play

  Bob Dylan “The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career”

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• Don't forget to support your public library.

  Bob Dylan

  Support, Library, Forget

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• He did ten years in Attica, reading Nietzsche and Wilhelm Reich.

  Bob Dylan

  Reading, Years, Ten

  Song: Joey, Album: Desire

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• I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.

  Bob Dylan

  Insanity, Stubborn, Politics

  Song: Up to Me, Album: Biograph

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• The song was there before me, before I came along. I just sorta came down and just sorta took it down with a pencil, but it was there before I came around.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Down And, Pencils

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• It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be.

  Bob Dylan

  Life, Sweet, Fear

  Song: Up to Me, Album: Biograph

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• People think they know me from my songs. But my repertoire of songs is so wide-ranging that you'd have to be a madman to figure out the characteristics of the person who wrote all those songs.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Thinking, People

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• People call you this or that. But I can't respond because then it seems like I'm defensive, you know, what does it matter, really?

  Bob Dylan

  People, Criticism, Doe

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• Look at the sun sinkin' like a ship. Ain't that just like my heart, babe. When you kissed my lips?

  Bob Dylan

  Heart, Looks, Ships

  Song: Meet Me In The Morning

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• I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

  Bob Dylan

  Love, America, Doe

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

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• My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

  Bob Dylan

  Fathers Day, Home, Wife

  Bob Dylan (2005). “Bob Dylan: Inspirations”, p.128, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Don't get up gentlemen. I'm only passing through!

  Bob Dylan

  Gentleman, Get Up, Passing

  Song: Things Have Changed, Album: The Essential Bob Dylan, 2000

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• I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word.

  Bob Dylan

  Poet, Trapeze, Trapeze Artists

  Bob Dylan (2005). “Bob Dylan: Inspirations”, p.17, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I dug it, New York City, all-the streets and the snows and the starving and the five-flight walkups and sleeping in rooms with ten people. I dug the trains and the shadows, the way I dug ore mines and coal mines. I just jumped right to the bottom of New York.

  Bob Dylan

  New York, Sleep, Cities

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• Let me ask you one question Is your money that good Will it buy you forgiveness Do you think that it could I think you will find When your death takes its toll All the money you made Will never buy back your soul

  Bob Dylan

  Thinking, Soul, Tolls

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

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• Feeling funny in my mind, Lord I believe I'm fixing to die Well, I don't mind dying But I hate to leave my children crying Well, I look over yonder to that burying ground Look over yonder to that burying ground Sure seems lonesome, Lord, when the sun goes down

  Bob Dylan

  Death, Children, Hate

  Song: Fixin' To Die Blues, Album: Bob Dylan, 1962

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• Got no religion. Tried a bunch of different religions. The churches are divided. Can't make up their minds and neither can I.

  Bob Dylan

  Mind, Church, Different

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• Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.

  Bob Dylan

  Mainstream Culture, Sound, Looks

  "Bob Dylan Exclusive Interview: Reveals His Favorite Songwriters, Thoughts On His Own Cult Figure Status". Interview with Bill Flanagan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 16, 2009.

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• I really didn't consider myself happy or unhappy.

  Bob Dylan

  Unhappy

  Bob Dylan, Robert Santelli (2005). “The Bob Dylan scrapbook: 1956-1966”, Egully.com

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• I don't think I'm tangible to myself.

  Bob Dylan

  Thinking, Tangible

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

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• Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

  Bob Dylan

  Graduation, Home, College

  Bob Dylan (1995). “The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career”

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• 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.

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• I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams.

  Bob Dylan

  Country, Song, Writing

  Bob Dylan (1995). “The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career”

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• When you asked me how I was doing, was that some kind of joke

  Bob Dylan

  Kind, Jokes

  Song: Desolation Row, Album: Highway 61 Revisited, 1965

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• Well, I try my best to be just like I am, But everybody wants you to be just like them, They sing while you slave and I just get bored

  Bob Dylan

  Bored, Trying, Want

  Song: Maggie's Farm

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