Quotes from Bob Dylan

What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.

I stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed... so drastically, I couldn't believe it myself.

Nothing can affect my voice, it's so bad.

In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself.

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

I took her by the hand and my heart it was thumpin'. When she said, hey man, you crazy or somethin'?

Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I've got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

The Duke [John Wayne] was a massive figure. He looked like a heavy piece of hauled lumber, and it didn't seem like any man could stand shoulder to shoulder with him.

Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise.

God got the power, man has got his vanity. Man gotta choose before God can set him free.

There's danger in this open world where men strive to be free, and to me the greatest danger was in society.

Good intentions can be evil, both hands are full of grease. You know, sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.

Stay free of petty jealousies, live by no man's code, and hold your judgment for yourself, lest you wind up on this road.

Every man's conscience is vile and depraved / You cannot depend on it to be your guide when it's you who must keep it satisfied.

Too much of nothing can turn a man into a liar. It can cause one man to sleep on nails and another to eat fire.

The man in the coon skin cap in the pig pen wants eleven dollar bills, you've only got ten.

Dead man, dead man When will you arise? Cobwebs in your mind Dust upon your eyes

How many times must a man look up, before he can see the sky?

Silvio, I gotta go, find out something only dead men know.

I heard the tongues of angels and the tongues of men and it all sounded no different to me.