Bob Dylan Quotes

I didn’t have any of these dreams or thoughts, but I was going to acquire them.

The people in my songs are all me.

How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove sail before she sleeps in the sand?

We heard the Sermon on the Mount and I knew it was too complex,
It didn't amount to anything more than what the broken glass reflects.
When you bite off more than you can chew you pay the penalty,
Somebody's got to tell the tale,
I guess it must be up to me.

–Bob Dylan, “Up To Me

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

Well, I try my best
To be just like I am
But everybody wants you
To be just like them

If she's passing back this way I'm not that hard to find Tell her she can look me up if she's got the time.

What good am I if I know and don't do. If I see and don't say.

Don't wanna judge nobody — don't wanna be judged.

While one who sings with his tongue on fire
Gargles in the rat race choir

Of war and peace the truth just twist, its curfew gull it glides.

It´s alright, Ma, Things have changed.
Tangled up in blue, Just like a woman, Like a rolling stone.
Most of the time, Mr Tamburin Man Gotta serve somebody.

All I really want to do, Can´t wait, Soon after midnight –
Visions of Joanna, Lay lady lay, Make you feel my love.
The man in me, This dream of you, Things have changed.

Simple twist of fate, One too many mornings, Things have changed.
Saved! Roll on John, Masters of War, Must be Santa.
Seven days, Shelter from the storm, Life is hard.

A woman like you should be at home. That's where you belong, taking care of somebody nice who don't know how to do you wrong.

In the fury of the moment I can see the Master's hand
In every leaf that trembles, in every grain of sand

She's got everything she needs; she's an artist, she don't look back.