Bob Dylan Quotes

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

I’ve never written a political song. Songs can’t save the world. I’ve gone through all that.

I was born a long way from where I belong and I am on my way home.

Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.

I’m inconsistent, even to myself.

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

You just don’t wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

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

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

The land created me. I’m wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I’m more at home in the vacant lots.

You get older. You start having hopes for other people rather than yourself.