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Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter. Often regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture during a career spanning more than 60 years. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when songs such as “Blowin’ in the Wind” (1963) and “The Times They Are a-Changin'” (1964) became anthems for the civil rights and antiwar movements.
His lyrics during this period incorporated a range of political, social, philosophical, and literary influences, defying pop music conventions and appealing to the burgeoning counterculture.
List of quotes
| Money doesn’t talk, it swears. |
| Just because you like my stuff doesn’t mean I owe you anything. |
| In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall. |
| In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge. |
| If I wasn’t Bob Dylan, I’d probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself. |
| I’ve never written a political song. Songs can’t save the world. I’ve gone through all that. |
| I’m speaking for all of us. I’m the spokesman for a generation. |
| No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky. |
| I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours. |
| There is nothing so stable as change. |
| I think a poet is anybody who wouldn’t call himself a poet. |
| A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom. |
| People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent. |
| People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around – the music and the ideas. |
| I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds. |
| The radio makes hideous sounds. |
| I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom. |
| 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. |
| To live outside the law, you must be honest. |
| Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past. |
| What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it. |
| 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. |
| When you cease to exist, then who will you blame? |
| Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be. |
| You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever. |
| Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them. |
| All I can do is be me, whoever that is. |
| A lot of people can’t stand touring but to me it’s like breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it. |
| A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do. |
| A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding. |
| A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. |
| I’m just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I’d be seeing Elvis soon. |
| A song is anything that can walk by itself. |
| I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged. |
| All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie. |
| All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die. |
| At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage. |
| Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be. |
| Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot. |
| I have dined with kings, I’ve been offered wings. And I’ve never been too impressed. |
| But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked. |
| Chaos is a friend of mine. |
| Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges. |
| 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. |
| Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people. |
| He not busy being born is busy dying. |
| I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me. |
| 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. |
| I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet. |
| I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be. |
| I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change. |
| Being on tour is like being in limbo. It’s like going from nowhere to nowhere. |
| A poem is a naked person… Some people say that I am a poet. |
