Bob Dylan has shared countless thoughts on life, love, and music that continue to inspire and challenge people of all ages. These quotes capture his unique perspective and offer a glimpse into the mind of one of the most influential voices of our time.
Bob Dylan’s Best Quotes
- “A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.” – Bob Dylan
- “I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.” – Bob Dylan
- “Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.” – Bob Dylan
- “All I can do is be me, whoever that is.” – Bob Dylan
- “People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.” – Bob Dylan
- “I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.” – Bob Dylan
- “Sometimes it’s not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don’t mean.” – Bob Dylan
- “Act the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you act.” – Bob Dylan
- “There’s no success like failure, and failure’s no success at all.” – Bob Dylan
- “Democracy doesn’t rule the world, you better get that in your head; this world is ruled by violence, but I guess that’s better left unsaid.” – Bob Dylan
- “When you’ve got nothing, you’ve got nothing to lose.” – Bob Dylan
- “A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.” – Bob Dylan
- “Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.” – Bob Dylan
- “All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.” – Bob Dylan
- “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” – Bob Dylan
- “I accept chaos, but I’m not sure whether it accepts me.” – Bob Dylan
- “People are crazy and times are strange.” – Bob Dylan
- “I gave myself to sin, and I’ve been forgiven.” – Bob Dylan
- “To live outside the law, you must be honest.” – Bob Dylan
- “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
- “Money doesn’t talk, it swears.” – Bob Dylan
- “A song is anything that can walk by itself.” – Bob Dylan
- “I don’t break the rules because I don’t have any rules to break.” – Bob Dylan
- “I don’t believe you. You’re a liar!” – Bob Dylan
- “Chaos is a friend of mine.” – Bob Dylan
- “You better start swimming, or you’ll sink like a stone.” – Bob Dylan
- “Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.” – Bob Dylan
- “The times they are a-changing.” – Bob Dylan
- “No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.” – Bob Dylan
- “You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.” – Bob Dylan
- “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
- “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
- “Behind every beautiful thing, there’s some kind of pain.” – Bob Dylan
- “All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.” – Bob Dylan
- “Being on tour is like being in limbo. It’s like going from nowhere to nowhere.” – Bob Dylan
- “Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that’s exactly the way we want it to be.” – Bob Dylan
- “Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.” – Bob Dylan
- “There’s no liquor in the land that can stop your brain from bleedin’.” – Bob Dylan
- “My father said, ‘You know, Bobby, when you meet someone, look them in the eye, don’t look down, look them in the eye.’ That stuck with me.” – Bob Dylan
- “No one is free until everyone is free.” – Bob Dylan
- “You can’t be wise and in love at the same time.” – Bob Dylan
- “I was born very far from where I’m supposed to be, and so I’m on my way home.” – Bob Dylan
- “Everything passes. Everything changes. Just do what you think you should do.” – Bob Dylan
- “The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do for anyone but inspire them?” – Bob Dylan
- “All the money you made will never buy back your soul.” – Bob Dylan
- “You can’t imagine parades of millions of people in different countries at the same time going through the streets demanding peace – and then nothing happens.” – Bob Dylan
- “Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.” – Bob Dylan
- “It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be.” – Bob Dylan
- “At times in my life, the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.” – Bob Dylan
- “The future for me is already a thing of the past.” – Bob Dylan
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