50 Quotes By Bob Dylan


The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.
Bob Dylan on home

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.
Bob Dylan on life

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent God, the all-great God, the Almighty God, the most powerful God, the giver of life God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.
Bob Dylan on life

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.
Bob Dylan on love

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan on money

Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.
Bob Dylan on money

Money doesn't talk, it swears.
Bob Dylan on money

I'm sick of giving creeps money off my soul.
Bob Dylan on money

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan on morning

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.
Bob Dylan on music

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
Bob Dylan on music

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.
Bob Dylan on music

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.
Bob Dylan on music

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.
Bob Dylan on music

You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.
Bob Dylan on music

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.
Bob Dylan on music

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.
Bob Dylan on nature

I think I have a dualistic nature.
Bob Dylan on nature

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
Bob Dylan on patriotism

It's not easy to define poetry.
Bob Dylan on poetry