Bob Dylan Quotes

How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove sail before she sleeps in the sand?

Q: Is it still possible nowadays to influence the world by songs? To be political by means of messages?

A: No, there are newspapers for that. When people want to deal with the world, they should watch television.

Q: That's very passive.

A: The world has become like that. People are going to the football stadium, they don't play themselves anymore.

Q: Did you ever think you could be politically active through your songs?

A: No, no, no. If I had wanted to do that, I would have gone to Harvard or Yale, would have studied and would have a become a politician after that.

I'm walking through the leaves falling from the trees,
Feelin' like a stranger nobody sees.

You say you lost your faith
But that's not where it's at
You had no faith to lose
And you know it

The chilling precision that these old-timers used in coming up with their songs was no small thing.

Don't ask me nothin' about nothin'. I just might tell you the truth.

Down over the window
Comes the dazzling sunlit rays
Through the back alleys, through the blinds
Another one of them endless days

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

I once loved a woman, a child I am told
I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul.

The highest purpose of art is to inspire.

It's easier to be me than someone else. But just like most famous people, I just want to be left alone most of the time.

[Ref Rimbaud line 'Je est un autre,]' “which translates into ‘I is someone else.’ When I read those words the bells went off. It made perfect sense. I wished someone would have mentioned that to me earlier.”

Johnny's in the basement
Mixing up the medicine
I'm on the pavement
Thinking 'bout the government.

aretha with no goals, eternally single & one step soft of heaven/ let it be understood that she owns this melody along with her emotional diplomats & her earth & her musical secrets

You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hangin' out
Now you don't talk so loud
Now you don't seem so proud
About having to be scrounging for your next meal