Bob Dylan quotes

Born
May 24, 1941, Duluth, Minnesota, U.S.

Occupation
Songwriter, singer, musician.

Bob Dylan is an American songwriter, singer, artist, and writer. He has been influential in popular music and culture for more than five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when his songs chronicled social unrest.

I’m inconsistent, even to myself.
– Bob Dylan

To live outside the law, you must be honest.
– Bob Dylan

I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.
– Bob Dylan

I can’t see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That’s terrible.
– Bob Dylan

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.
– Bob Dylan

The people in my songs are all me.
– Bob Dylan

He not busy being born is busy dying.
– Bob Dylan

I’m speaking for all of us. I’m the spokesman for a generation.
– Bob Dylan

What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.
– Bob Dylan

A song is anything that can walk by itself.
– Bob Dylan

I’ve never written a political song. Songs can’t save the world. I’ve gone through all that.
– Bob Dylan

I kinda live where I find myself.
– Bob Dylan

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
– Bob Dylan

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

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

I’m not the kind of cat that’s going to cut off an ear if I can’t do something.
– Bob Dylan

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

Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be.
– Bob Dylan

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.
– Bob Dylan

My range is limited.
– Bob Dylan

You just don’t wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.
– Bob Dylan

I’m not a playwright.
– Bob Dylan

I don’t think I’m tangible to myself.
– Bob Dylan

It’s not easy to define poetry.
– Bob Dylan

Just because you like my stuff doesn’t mean I owe you anything.
– 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

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

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

I’m sick of giving creeps money off my soul.
– Bob Dylan

You can’t do something forever.
– Bob Dylan

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.
– 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

I’m just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I’d be seeing Elvis soon.
– Bob Dylan

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

A poem is a naked person… Some people say that I am a poet.
– Bob Dylan

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

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.
– Bob Dylan

I stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed… so drastically, I couldn’t believe it myself.
– Bob Dylan

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.
– Bob Dylan

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.
– Bob Dylan

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
– 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 learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.
– Bob Dylan

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.
– Bob Dylan

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.
– Bob Dylan

Nothing can affect my voice, it’s so bad.
– Bob Dylan

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn’t call himself a poet.
– Bob Dylan

I can’t stand to see myself on television.
– Bob Dylan

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.
– Bob Dylan

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.
– Bob Dylan

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

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

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.
– Bob Dylan

I have dined with kings, I’ve been offered wings. And I’ve never been too impressed.
– Bob Dylan

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
– Bob Dylan

I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.
– Bob Dylan

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.
– Bob Dylan

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

I never saw myself as a folk singer.
– Bob Dylan

A lot of people don’t like the road, but it’s as natural to me as breathing.
– Bob Dylan

I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.
– Bob Dylan

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.
– 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

Chaos is a friend of mine.
– Bob Dylan

You call yourself what you want to call yourself.
– Bob Dylan

I think I have a dualistic nature.
– Bob Dylan