The best Quotes by Bob Dylan

Let's play it f*cking loud!

You can never be wise and be in love at the same time.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

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

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

I used to read a lot of Steinbeck, and I admired Roger Miller and Bob Dylan.

The Bible is very resonant. It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the Bible, and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan.

As a songwriter, oddly enough, my influences were people like Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground, and Buddy Holly. Some psychedelic stuff, too.

It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing. Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan.

There ain't nobody I'd rather have alongside me in a fight than my mama with a broken bottle in her hand.

If you think I'm a drunk, you shoulda seen my old man.

There ain't a man livin' who hasn't talked to his dog.

The way I feel is that if you don't like folk music, stay away from my shows.

Folk songs express the dreams and prayers and hopes of the working people.

While it's not very Minnesotan to brag, I've got to brag on our state a little here: We were just ranked #1 in the country for health care.

I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.

Ted: "It's freezing out there. Where's your coat?"
Robin: "Ted, I'm Canadian. I don't need a coat. This kind of weather is nothing for me."
Marshall: "Yeah. This is like a spring day back in Minnesota."

Minnesota, I love you snow much!

This is how liberty dies - with thunderous applause!

People learn to love their chains.

When I'm writing a lyric, things can only get so serious before they start becoming humorous.

People keep inventing all these new machines, and producers and recording engineers keep wanting to use them.

If you feel good about who you are inside, it will radiate.

I've said this over and over, but I'll say it a million more times - I'm concerned more about the death of a bee than I am about terrorism. Because we're losing hives and bees by the millions because of such strong pesticides.

I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.

Never mind a world that can't see past brutality.

And if we should die tonight
We should all die together

Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

For stony limits cannot hold love out,
And what love can do, that dares love attempt.

Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

There is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of man.

Death is very often referred to as a good career move.

I know it's true
It's all because of you
And if you go away
I know you could never stay

I know it's true
It's all because of you
And if I make it through
It's all because of you

And now and then
If we must start again
Well, we will know for sure
That I love you

I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

The heart can be tough to change, but the mind can be tough to persuade.

Remember, with great power. comes great responsibility!

A true hero isn't measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart.

No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.

Being different isn't a bad thing. It means you're brave enough to be yourself.

You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself plainly when you have need of him.