Quotes by Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

American musician

Lived from: 1941 -

Category: Music Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 24 may 1941

  • You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.
  • Once upon a time you dressed so fine, threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you. People call, say beware doll, you're bound to fall, you thought they were all, kiddin you.
  • Well, I try my best To be just like I am But everybody wants you To be just like them
  • Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!
  • You've been with the professors and they've all liked your looks. With great lawyers you've discussed lepers and crooks.
  • While one who sings with his tongue on fire Gargles in the rat race choir Bent out of shape from society's pliers Cares not to come up any higher But rather get you down in the hole That he's in
  • Hey, hey, Woody Guthrie, I wrote you a song, 'bout a funny ol' world that's a-comin' along
  • Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.
  • Disillusioned words like bullets bark As human gods aim for their marks. Make everything from toy guns that spark To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark. It's easy to see without looking too far that not much is really sacred.
  • Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me. I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to. Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me. In the jingle-jangle morning, I'll come following you.
  • People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
  • Here's to Cisco an' Sonny an' Lead Belly too, an' to all the good people that traveled with you.
  • Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
  • But if the arrow is straight, And the point is slick, It can pierce through dust no matter how thick.
  • I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, ''Okay, you've been up on the mountain, now you go down. You're on your own, free. Check in later, but now you're on your own.''
  • You don't need a weather man To know which way the wind blows.
  • A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.
  • The vagabond who's rapping at your door, Is standing in the clothes that you once wore.
  • It's hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.
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  • Johnny's in the basement
    Mixing up the medicine
    I'm on the pavement
    Thinking about the government
    The man in the trenchcoat
    Badge out, laid off
    Says he's got a bad cough
    Wants to get it paid off
    Look out kid
    It's somethin' you did
    God knows when
    But you're doin' it again
    Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
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  • A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.
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  • A lot of people don't have much food on their table
    But they got a lot of forks and knives
    And they gotta cut something
    Bob Dylan (1962)
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  • A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
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  • A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
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  • A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.
    Liner notes bij album Bringing It All Back Home
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  • Advertising signs that con you into thinking you are the one
    That can do what's never been done,
    That can win what's never been won
    Meanwhile, life outside goes on all around you
    Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
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  • Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.
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  • All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
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  • Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools got nothing, Ma, to live up to.
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  • An' though the rules of the road have been lodged
    It's only people's games that you got to dodge
    Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
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  • And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot fighting in the captain's tower while calypso singers laugh at them and fishermen hold flowers...
    Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
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  • And I hope that you die
    And your death'll come soon
    I will follow your casket
    In the pale afternoon
    And I'll watch while you're lowered
    Down to your deathbed
    And I'll stand o'er your grave
    'Til I'm sure that you're dead
    The Freewheelin Bob Dylan (1963)
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  • And if my thought-dreams could be seen, they'd probably put my head in a guillotine.
    But it's alright, Ma, it's life, and life only.
    Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
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  • And something is happening here, but you don't know what it is, do you Mr. Jones?
    Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
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  • And the National Bank at a profit sells road maps for the soul
    To the old folks home and the college
    Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
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  • Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
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  • Because Dickens and Dostoevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind.
    Liner notes, The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964 (2004)
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  • Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.
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  • Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere.
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What are the most famous quotes from Bob Dylan?

The two most famous quotes from Bob Dylan are:

  • "Johnny's in the basement
    Mixing up the medicine
    I'm on the pavement
    Thinking about the government
    The man in the trenchcoat
    Badge out, laid off
    Says he's got a bad cough
    Wants to get it paid off
    Look out kid
    It's somethin' you did
    God knows when
    But you're doin' it again"
  • "A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it."

When did Bob Dylan live?

Bob Dylan was born in 1941.