Bob Dylan Quotes

It's a wicked life, but what the hell, the stars ain't falling down.

Yes, I received your letter yesterday
(About the time the door knob broke)
When you asked how I was doing
Was that some kind of joke?
All these people that you mention
Yes, I know them, they're quite lame
I had to rearrange their faces
And give them all another name
Right now I can't read too good
Don't send me no more letters no
Not unless you mail them
From Desolation Row

If I thought about it, I never would have done it, I guess I would have let it slide.

But I can't think for you
You'll have to decide
Whether Judas Iscariot
Had God on his side

Conceit is not necessarily a disease. It’s more of a weakness.

People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.

Who cleared the path for Presley to sing
Who carved out the path for Martin Luther King

You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hangin' out
Now you don't talk so loud
Now you don't seem so proud
About having to be scrounging for your next meal

"In my dreams, crowds were chanting, challenging me, shouting, "Follow us and fit in!" I wanted to tell him that life itself has turned into a prowling lion. I wanted to tell him that I needed to escape the blaze of bullshit."

You got some big dreams, baby, but in order to dream you gotta still be asleep.

Your old road is rapidly aging.
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand,
For the times they are a-changin'.

She says, you don’t read women authors do you?... I said, You’re way wrong. She says, Which ones have you read then? I say, I read Erica Jong!

There's no liquor in the land that can stop your brain from bleedin

Then there’s the trap of easy rhymes.

There’s smoke on the water, it’s been there since June
Tree trunks uprooted, 'neath the high crescent moon
Feel the pulse and vibration and the rumbling force
Somebody is out there beating on a dead horse