Bob Dylan Quotes

But I would not feel so all alone, everybody must get stoned!

[In 1951] we were also told that the Russians could be parachuting from planes over our town at any time. These were the same Russians that my uncles had fought alongside only a few years earlier. Now they had become monsters who were coming to slit our throats and incinerate us. It seemed peculiar. Living under a cloud of fear like this robs a child of his spirit. It's one thing to be afraid when someone's holding a shotgun on you, but it's another thing to be afraid of something that's just not quite real.

I'm out here a thousand miles from my home
Walkin' a road other men have gone down
I'm seein' your world of people and things
Your paupers and peasants and princes and kings

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

Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride/
You will not die, its not poison
-Tombstone Blues

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

The chilling precision that these old-timers used in coming up with their songs was no small thing.

Even the President of the United States
Sometimes must have to stand naked

All I really want to do is, baby, be friends with you.

He not busy being born is busy dying'''

Everybody movin', if they ain't already there. Everyboy got to move somewhere.

I can't believe we've lived so long and are still so far apart.

I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more.

I once loved a woman, a child I am told

The future for me is already a thing of the past.