He is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. He started out singing in the 1960s, reaching and astonishing crowds through his songs that were more like speeches to a generation searching for themselves. His popularity has never ceased. He is known for such songs as “Blowin’ in the Wind”, “All Along The Watchtower”, “Like a Rolling Stone,” “Tangled Up in Blue,” “The Times They Are A-Changin”
(1941
– Bob Dylan Quotes –
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 there’s some kind of change.
~ Bob Dylan
This here ain’t no protest song or anything like that, ’cause I don’t write no protest songs.
~ Bob Dylan
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.
~ Bob Dylan
I have dined with kings, I’ve been offered wings. And I’ve never been too impressed.
~ Bob Dylan
What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.
~ Bob Dylan
I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.
~ 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
Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.
~ Bob Dylan
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.
~ Bob Dylan
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
~ 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
Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
~ Bob Dylan
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.
~ 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
In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
~ Bob Dylan
No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.
~ Bob Dylan
I’m speaking for all of us. I’m the spokesman for a generation.
~ Bob Dylan
Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be.
~ Bob Dylan
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
~ Bob Dylan
You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.
~ Bob Dylan
In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.
~ Bob Dylan
Money doesn’t talk, it swears.
~ Bob Dylan
If I wasn’t Bob Dylan, I’d probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.
~ Bob Dylan
There is nothing so stable as change.
~ Bob Dylan
Just because you like my stuff doesn’t mean I owe you anything.
~ Bob Dylan
When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?
~ Bob Dylan
I’ve never written a political song. Songs can’t save the world. I’ve gone through all that.
~ Bob Dylan
The future for me is already a thing of the past.
~ Bob Dylan
