Bob Dylan Quotes

He bent in the middle like a twisted pin

Oh all the money that in my whole life I did spend
Be it mine right or wrongfully
I let it slip gladly past the hands of my friends
To tie up the time most forcefully

Peace will come
With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire
But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall..

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

I could be unraveling wherever I'm traveling, even to foreign shores.

Night can swallow you up, yet none of it touches you. Around any corner, there's a promise of something daring and ideal and things are just getting going. There's something obscenely joyful behind every door, either that or somebody crying with their head in in their hands. A lazy rhythm looms in the dreamy air and the atmosphere pulsates with bygone duels, past-life romance, comrades requesting comrades to aid them in some way. You can't see it, but you know it's there

After Lou heard my Guthrie song, he asked me if I ever wrote any songs about baseball players.

What is it about lapsing into narration in a song that makes you think the singer is suddenly revealing the truth?

And the National Bank at a profit sells road maps for the soul
To the old folks home and the college

It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
If you don't know by now

Happiness is not on my list of priorities. I just deal with day-to-day things. If I'm happy, I'm happy – and if I'm not, I don't know the difference... Knowing that you are the person you were put on this earth to be – that's much more important than just being happy.

And I’ll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it
And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it
Then I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin’
But I’ll know my song well before I start singin

I believe in you even on the morning after.

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

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