Bob Dylan
370 quotes
Biography
"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."
"Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain."
"The future for me is already a thing of the past -You were my first love and you will be my last"
"All I can be is me- whoever that is."
"Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean."
"Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be."
"He not busy being born is busy dying."
"You can never be wise and be in love at the same time."
"It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be..."
"Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want (Bob Dylan's dad)"
"You're gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you're gonna have to serve somebody..."
"Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you'd like to act."
"I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be."
"I failed to communicate, that's why I chose to leave"
"You better start swimming, or you'll sink like a stone. Because the Time's they are a-changing."
"There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again."
"When You Cease To Exist, Then Who Will You Blame?"
"They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king."
"Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem."
"Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind."
"There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I'm trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politics. They has got nothing to do with it. I'm thinking about the general people and when they get hurt."
"I am a writer an a singer of the words I write I am no speaker nor any politician an my songs speak for me because I write them in the confinement of my own mind an have t cope with no one except my own self."
"a poem is a naked person . . . some people say that I am a poet"
"He's a pinboy. He also wears suspenders. He's a real person. You know him, but not by that name... I saw him come into the room one night and he looked like a camel. He proceeded to put his eyes in his pocket. I asked this guy who he was and he said, "That's Mr. Jones." Then I asked this cat, "Doesn't he do anything but put his eyes in his pocket?" And he told me, "He puts his nose on the ground." It's all there, it's a true story."
"You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist."