Quotes from Bob Dylan

I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours

You got a lot of nerveTo say you are my friendWhen I was downYou just stood there grinning.

And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

But even the president of the United StatesSometimes must have to stand naked.

When your rooster crows at the break of dawnLook out your window and I'll be goneYou're the reason I'm trav'lin' onDon't think twice, it's all right

The pump don't work'Cause the vandals took the handles.

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.

Take me for a trip upon your magic swirlin' ship,My senses have been stripped,My hands can't feel to grip,My toes too numb to stepWait only for my boot heels to be wanderin'.

How many roads must a man walk downBefore you call him a man?…The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,The answer is blowin' in the wind.

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

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

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.

And here I sit so patientlyWaiting to find out what priceYou have to pay to get out ofGoing through all these things twice.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

While money doesn't talk, it swears.

Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.

I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come.

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

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

Yonder stands your orphan with his gunCrying like a fire in the sunLook out, the saints are comin' throughAnd it's all over now, Baby Blue.

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose.