Bob Dylan Quotes

American singer-songwriter (born 1941)

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Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941) is an American folk and rock singer-songwriter, born in Duluth, Minnesota. In 2016 Dylan received the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition".

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Pen Names: Bob Landy • Robert Milkwood Thomas • Tedham Porterhouse • Blind Boy Grunt • Jack Frost • Elston Gunn • Boo Wilbury • Lucky Wilbury • Sergei Petrov

Birth Name: Robert Allen Zimmerman

Native Name: Robert Dylan

Alternative Names: Robert Zimmerman • Dylan • Robert Dylan né Robert Allen Zimmerman • Robert Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman) • Shabtai Zisl ben Avraham

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Democracy don't rule the world; you'd better get that in your head. This world is ruled by violence.

I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now.

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In the home of the brave, Jefferson turning over in his grave.

When are you gonna wake up and strengthened the things that remain.

20 years of schooling and they put you on the day shift.

People disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book.

The sun's not yellow, it's chicken.

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

Sundown yellow moon I replay the past I know every scene by heart they all went by so fast

Counterfeit philosophies have polluted all of your thoughts; Karl Marx has got you by the throat, and Henry Kissinger's got you tied up into knots.

The road out would be treacherous, and I didn’t know where it would lead but I followed it anyway. It was a strange world ahead that would unfold, a thunderhead of a world with jagged lightning edges. Many got it wrong and never did get it right. I went straight into it. It was wide open. One thing for sure, not only was it not run by God, but it wasn’t run by the devil either.

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)

Don't the moon look good, mama, shinin' through the trees?
Don't the brakeman look good, mama, flaggin' down the double E?
Don't the sun look good goin' down over the sea?

The world don't need any more songs... As a matter of fact, if nobody wrote any songs from this day on, the world ain't gonna suffer for it... There's enough songs for people to listen to, if they want to listen to songs. For every man, woman and child on earth, they could be sent, probably, each of them, a hundred songs, and never be repeated... Unless someone's gonna come along with a pure heart and has something to say. That's a different story.

You drink bitter water And you been eating the bread of sorrow You can’t live for today When all you’re ever thinking of is tomorrow The path you’ve endured has been rough When you’ve decided that you’ve had enough, then Ye shall be changed, ye shall be changed In a twinkling of an eye, when the last trumpet blows The dead will arise and burst out of your clothes And ye shall be changed