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Bob Dylan Quotes



Quotes by Bob Dylan - (30 quotes)

Bob Dylan - From the Activity category:

He not busy being born is busy dying. (Bob Dylan)

Bob Dylan - From the Appreciation category:

Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything. (Bob Dylan)

Bob Dylan - From the Art category:

Art can lead you to God. I think that's the purpose of everything. If it's not doing that, what's it doing? It's leading you the other way. It's certainly not leading you nowhere. (Bob Dylan)

Bob Dylan - From the Change category:

The times they are a-changing. (Bob Dylan)

Bob Dylan - From the Chaos category:

I accept chaos; I'm not sure whether it accepts me. (Bob Dylan)

Bob Dylan - From the Criticism category:

Come mothers and fathers / Throughout the land / And don't criticize / What you don't understand. (Bob Dylan)

Bob Dylan - From the Determination category:

I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something. (Bob Dylan)

Bob Dylan - From the Difficulty category:

Art is not easy; no one gives you answers. (Bob Dylan)

Bob Dylan - From the Emotion category:

I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen. (Bob Dylan)

Bob Dylan - From the Fame category:

Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim. (Bob Dylan)

Bob Dylan - From the Freedom category:

Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist / Before they're allowed to be free? (Bob Dylan)

Bob Dylan - From the Health category:

I stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed... so drastically, I couldn't believe it myself. (Bob Dylan)

Bob Dylan - From the Illusion category:

Art is a never-ending dance of illusions. (Bob Dylan)

Bob Dylan - From the Information category:

Too much information about nothing. (Bob Dylan)

Bob Dylan - From the Journey category:

How many roads must a man walk down / Before you call him a man? (Bob Dylan)

Bob Dylan - From the Language category:

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs. (Bob Dylan)

Bob Dylan - From the Mistakes category:

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding. (Bob Dylan)

Bob Dylan - From the Money category:

Money doesn't talk, it swears. (Bob Dylan)

Bob Dylan - From the Music category:

A song is anything that can walk by itself. (Bob Dylan)

Bob Dylan - From the Painting category:

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work. (Bob Dylan)

Bob Dylan - From the Poetry category:

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet. (Bob Dylan)

Bob Dylan - From the Purpose category:

Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them? (Bob Dylan)

Bob Dylan - From the Purpose category:

The purpose of art is to stop time. (Bob Dylan)

Bob Dylan - From the Questions category:

The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind. (Bob Dylan)

Bob Dylan - From the Seeing category:

Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn his head, / Pretending he just doesn't see? (Bob Dylan)

Bob Dylan - From the Serendipity category:

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)

Bob Dylan - From the Solitude category:

It's easier to be me than someone else. But just like most famous people, I just want to be left alone most of the time. (Bob Dylan)

Bob Dylan - From the Success category:

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to. (Bob Dylan)

Bob Dylan - From the Success category:

You'll find out when you reach the top, you're on the bottom. (Bob Dylan)

Bob Dylan - From the Writing category:

It is the first line that gives the inspiration and then it's like riding a bull. Either you just stick with it, or you don't. (Bob Dylan)