Famous Bob Dylan Quotations

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"For them that think death's honesty Won't fall upon them naturally Life sometimes Must get lonely."
by Bob Dylan
"I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom."
by Bob Dylan
"Money doesn't talk, it swears."
by Bob Dylan
"All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die."
by Bob Dylan
"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 do."
by Bob Dylan
"Everything passes. Everything changes. Just do what you think you should do."
by Bob Dylan
"He not busy being born is busy dying."
by Bob Dylan
"He not busy being born is busy dying"
by Bob Dylan
"I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged."
by Bob Dylan
"I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet"
by Bob Dylan
"I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours."
by Bob Dylan
"If the point is sharp, and the arrow is swift, it can pierce through the dust no matter how thick."
by Bob Dylan
"Money doesn't talk, it swears"
by Bob Dylan
"Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet."
by Bob Dylan
"Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past. I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast."
by Bob Dylan
"There is nothing so stable as change"
by Bob Dylan
"To live outside the law you must be honest."
by Bob Dylan
"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."
by Bob Dylan
"When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks."
by Bob Dylan
"Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools got nothing, Ma, to live up to."
by Bob Dylan
"You make your own dream. That's the Beatles' story, isn't it? That's Yoko's story. That's what I'm saying now. Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It's quite possible to do anything, but not to put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don't expect Jimmy Carter or Ronald Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself. That's what the great masters and mistresses have been saying ever since time began. They can point the way, leave signposts and little instructions in various books that are now called holy and worshipped for the cover of the book and not for what it says, but the instructions are all there for all to see, have always been and always will be. There's nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you."
by John Lennon
"Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything."
by Bob Dylan
"To live outside the law, you must be honest."
by Bob Dylan
"He who is not busy being born is busy dying."
by Bob Dylan
"Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now."
by Bob Dylan
"Some of us pursue perfection and virtue and if we're lucky we catch up to it, but happiness cannot be pursued. It either comes to you or it don't. You can always say if only this or only that, but IF ONLY is a state of mind that we get into when we feel deprived."
by Bob Dylan - Masked and Anonymous
"She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you."
by Bob Dylan
"Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I'm not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I've never thought about that before! He said, When you're not following me, you're resisting me."
by Bob Dylan
"In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge."
by Bob Dylan
"Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people."
by Bob Dylan
"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."
by Bob Dylan
"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around -- the music and the ideas."
by Bob Dylan
"Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that's going on right now in a big way."
by Bob Dylan
"No one's free, even the birds are chained to the sky."
by Bob Dylan
"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."
by Bob Dylan
"Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land..."
by Bob Dylan
"I see my light come shining From the west unto the east Any day now, any day now, I shall be released."
by Bob Dylan
"The line it is drawn The curse it is cast..."
by Bob Dylan


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