1941-, American Musician, Singer, Songwriter
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.
Bob Dylan – [Success]
Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.
Bob Dylan – [Maturity]
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
Bob Dylan – [Equality]
Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools got nothing, Ma, to live up to.
Bob Dylan – [Alienation]
But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.
Bob Dylan – [President]
Democracy don'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 – [Democracy]
Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon –but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx –the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?
Bob Dylan – [Greatness]
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 – [Salvation]
For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.
Bob Dylan – [Immortality]
He who is not busy being born is busy dying.
Bob Dylan – [Life and Living]
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 – [Nature]
I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.
Bob Dylan – [America]
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Bob Dylan – [Heroes and Heroism]
I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, ''Okay, you've been up on the mountain, now you go down. You're on your own, free. Check in later, but now you're on your own.''
Bob Dylan – [World]
In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.
Bob Dylan – [Resentment]
In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
Bob Dylan – [Graffiti]
Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I'm not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I've never thought about that before! He said, When you're not following me, you're resisting me.
Bob Dylan – [Conversion]
Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.
Bob Dylan – [Gratitude]
Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that's going on right now in a big way.
Bob Dylan – [Twentieth Century]
Money doesn't talk, it swears.
Bob Dylan – [Money]