Quotes from Bob Dylan

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

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

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.

Hey! Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me,I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

I'm more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

But I was so much older thenI'm younger than that now.

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent God, the all-great God, the Almighty God, the most powerful God, the giver of life God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

Play it fuckin' loud!

The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.

I think I have a dualistic nature.

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

It's not easy to define poetry.

I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

I see my light come shiningFrom the west unto the eastAny day now, any day nowI shall be released.

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

The order isRapidly fadin'.And the first one nowWill later be lastFor the times they are a-changin'.

I'm sick of giving creeps money off my soul.

You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

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

How many times must the cannonballs fly before they're forever banned?

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.