Bob Dylan Quotes

MIDNIGHT RIDER THE ALLMAN BROTHERS Originally released on the album Idlewild South (Capricorn, 1970) Written by Gregg Allman and Robert Kim Payne

Dylan: Well, no, it is to begin with. But then I always hear other instruments, how they should sound. The closest I ever got to the sound I hear in my mind was on individual bands in the Blonde on Blonde album. It's that thin, that wild mercury sound. It's metallic and bright gold, with whatever that conjures up. That's my particular sound. I haven't been able to succeed in getting it all the time. Mostly, I've been driving at a combination of guitar, harmonica and organ, but now I find myself going into territory that has more percussion in it and [pause] rhythms of the soul.

She said, "Welcome to the land of the living dead," but you could tell she was so brokenhearted — she said, "Even the swap meets around here are getting pretty corrupt."

Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free,
Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands

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

His clothes are dirty, but his hands are clean, and you're the best thing that he's ever seen.

When you asked me how I was doing, was that some kind of joke

You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.

All I really want to do is, baby, be friends with you.

The highway is for gamblers, better use your sense.

I've been deceived by the clown inside of me. I thought that he was righteous but he's vain.

It ain't my cup of meat.

How does it feel?

I'm sittin' on my watch so I can be on time.

Feel like falling in love with the first woman I meet... Putting her in a wheel barrow and wheeling her down the street.