Bob Dylan Quotes

American singer-songwriter (born 1941)

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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Birth Name: Robert Allen Zimmerman

Native Name: Robert Dylan

Alternative Names: Bob Landy • Robert Milkwood Thomas • Tedham Porterhouse • Robert Zimmerman • Blind Boy Grunt • Jack Frost • Elston Gunn • Lucky Wilbury • Boo Wilbury • Sergei Petrov • Dylan • Robert Dylan né Robert Allen Zimmerman • Robert Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman) • Shabtai Zisl ben Avraham

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People were people.

Yesterday's just a memory; tomorrow's never what it's supposed to be.

I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

Don't follow leaders
Watch the parkin' meters

I know it looks like I'm moving, but I'm standing still Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from.

Oh you five and ten cent women
With nothin' in your heads
I got a real gal I'm lovin'
And Lord I'll love her till I'm dead
Go away from my door and my window too
Right now

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

She was the most erotic thing I’d ever seen. She was fair skinned and golden haired, full-blood Italian. The air was suddenly filled with banana leaves. We started talking and my head started to spin. Cupid’s arrow had whistled past my ears before, but this time it hit me in the heart and the weight of it dragged me overboard.

"You're A Big Girl Now"

Our conversation was short and sweet
It nearly swept me off-a my feet
And I'm back in the rain, oh, oh
And you are on dry land
You made it there somehow
You're a big girl now

Bird on the horizon, sitting on a fence
He's singing his song for me at his own expense
And I'm just like that bird, oh, oh
Singing just for you
I hope that you can hear
Hear me singing through these tears

Time is a jet plane, it moves too fast
Oh, but what a shame that all we've shared can't last
I can change, I swear, oh, oh
See what you can do
I can make it through
You can make it too

Love is so simple, to quote a phrase
You've known it all the time, I'm learning it these days
Oh, I know where I can find you, oh, oh
In somebody's room
It's a price I have to pay
You're a big girl all the way

A change in the weather is known to be extreme
But what's the sense of changing horses in midstream?
I'm going out of my mind, oh, oh
With a pain that stops and starts
Like a corkscrew to my heart
Ever since we've been apart

Bob Dylan, Blood On The Tracks (1975)

What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not threatening—all bunk. No guarantees of anything, not even the guarantee that life isn't one big joke.

Man is opposed to fair play: he wants it all, and he wants it his way.

I started out on burgundy but soon hit the harder stuff.

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

We are so scared of losing everything that doesn't mean anything.

The sweet pretty things are in bed now, of course.