Bob Dylan Quotes

Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.

Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free.

People tell me it's a sin
To know and feel too much within

You look into the fiery furnace, see the rich man without any name.

Everything passes,
Everything changes,
Just do what you think you should do.

You can't be wise and in love at the same time. – Bob Dylan, No Direction Home (2005) Directed by Martin Scorsese.

Don’t reach out for me, she said. Can’t you see I’m drowning too?

I'm trying to get as far way from myself as I can.........from Things Have Changed by Bob Dylan (not a book but .........)

Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.

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

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

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

'Twas in another lifetime, one of toil and blood
When blackness was a virtue, the road was full of mud.
I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form,
'Come in,' she said, 'I'll give you shelter from the storm.'

Long before the First Crusade, way back before England or America was made.

Fox’s Book of Martyrs, The Twelve Caesars, Tacitus lectures and letters to Brutus. Pericles’ Ideal State of Democracy, Thucydides’ The Athenian General