Bob Dylan Quotes

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young.

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.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.

With your silhouette when the sunlight dims Into your eyes where the moonlight swims, And your match-book songs and your gypsy hymns, Who among them would try to impress you? -Bob Dylan, "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” (1966)

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

Some people are called to be a good sailor. Some people have a calling to be a good tiller of the land. Some people are called to be a good friend. You have to be the best at whatever you are called at. Whatever you do. You ought to be the best at it – highly skilled. It's about confidence, not arrogance. You have to know that you're the best whether anybody else tells you that or not. And that you'll be around, in one way or another, longer than anybody else. Somewhere inside of you, you have to believe that.

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

Let me drink from the waters where the mountain streams flood Let the smell of wildflowers flow free through my blood Let me sleep in your meadows with the green grassy leaves Let me walk down the highway with my brother in peace Let me die in my footsteps Before I go down under the ground.

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?

Jesus, that ear. He should donate it to The Smithsonian. Brian Wilson, he made all his records with four tracks, but you couldn't make his records if you had a hundred tracks today.

I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.

How many roads must a man walk down.. Before you can call him a Man.

Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work.

Watch waterfalls of pity roar, you feel to moan but unlike before, you discover that you'd just be one more person crying.

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.

People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.

There's beauty in the silver singing river There's beauty in the sunrise in the sky But none of these and nothing else can match the beauty That I remember in my true love's eyes

If you need somebody you can trust, trust yourself

Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.

You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist, and 'load every rift' of your subject with ore.

Lord knows I've paid my dues getting through, tangled up in blue.

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.

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.

If I lived my life by what others were thinkin', the heart inside me would've died.

Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong, may you stay forever young.

You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

There is nothing so stable as change.

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

No reason to get excited,' the thief, he kindly spoke, There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.

Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than those who are most content.

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.

Sometimes the silence can be like thunder.

The corporations have taken over. Even in the recording studio. Actually, the corporate companies have taken over American life most everywhere. Go coast to coast and you will see people wearing the same clothes, thinking the same thoughts, eating the same food. Everything is processed.

I've always been the kind of person that doesn't like to trespass, but sometimes you just find yourself over the line.

I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life, and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness. Happiness is a state of bliss. Just because you're satisfied one moment - saying yes, it's a good meal, makes me happy - well, that's not going to necessarily be true the next hour. Life has its ups and downs, and time has to be your partner. Time is your soul mate. Children are happy. But they haven't really experienced ups and downs yet. I'm not exactly sure what happiness even means. I don't know if I personally could define it.

Life has its ups and downs, and time has to be your partner. Really, time is your soul mate.

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

You can't be wise and in love at the same time.

Steal a little and they throw you in jail Steal a lot and they make you king.