Bob Dylan Quotes

The little room was filled with American records and a phonograph. Izzy would let me stay back there and listen to them. I listened to as many as I could, even thumbed through a lot of his antediluvian folk scrolls. The madly complicated modern world was something I took little interest in. It had no relevancy, no weight. I wasn't seduced by it.

I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's.

Destiny is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have in your own mind of what you’re about will come true. It’s a kind of a thing you kind of have to keep to your own self, because it’s a fragile feeling, and you put it out there, then someone will kill it. It’s best to keep that all inside.

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'.

It sure do bother me to see my loved ones turning into puppets.

But you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fears
Take the rag away from your face
Now ain’t the time for your tears.

I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours”
I said that

1985 წელს თბილისში ყოფნისას ბობ დილანს მხატვარ ზურაბ წერეთლის აგარაკზე უმასპინძლეს. თამადად იყო ერთი ცნობილი პოეტი, რომელიც ქართული ტრადიციით ამბობდა სადღეგრძლოებს, ქართულ ლექსებსაც აყოლებდა - არ ვიცი ამ ლექსებს თარჯიმანი დილანს რანაირად უთარგმნიდა... მერე ჩემსკენ გადმოიწია და დილანზე მითხრა, ახლა ესეც პოეტია და მეც პოეტი ვარო? ჩამეცინა. იმას შეიძლება საერთოდ არ ჰქონდა გაგებული ბობ დილანი

The enemy I see wears a cloak of decency.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

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

There are no mistakes in life, some people say
And it's true, sometimes you can see it that way
People don't live or die, people just float
She went with the man in the long black coat.

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

"Be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want."

-Bob Dylan's Dad

"You've gotta lotta nerve to say you are my friend
When I was down you just stood there grinnin'
You've gotta lotta nerve to say you have a helping hand to lend
You just want to be on the side that's winnin'

You see me on the street, you always act surprised
Ya say "how are you?", "good luck", but ya don't mean it
When you know as well as me you'd rather see me paralyzed
Why don't you just come out once and scream it"