Quotes from Bob Dylan

I'm 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.

You don't have to be afraid of looking into my face. We've done nothing to each other that time will not erase.

Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles.

You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.

the only thing i knew how to do was to keep on keeping on

May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young.

There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate, so let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.

I failed to communicate, that's why I chose to leave

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

Ah, but I was so much older then I'm younger than that now

There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.

They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.

You better start swimming, or you'll sink like a stone. Because the Time's they are a-changing.

songs, to me, were more important than just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of reality. Some different republic, some liberated republic... whatever the case, it wasn't that I was anti-popular culture or anything and I had no ambition to stir things up. I just thought of mainstream culture as lame as hell and a big trick. It was like the unbroken sea of frost that lay outside the window and you had to have awkward footgear to walk with.

The worth of things can't be measured by what they cost but by what the cost you to get it, that if anything costs you your faith or your family, then the price is too high, and that there are some things that will never wear out.

If ever asked to look at yourself, don't.

Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?

Whatever colors you have in your mind, I'll show them to you and you'll see them shine.

All right, I'll take a chance. I will fall in love with you. If i'm a fool you can have the night, you can have the morning too. Can you cook and sew. make flowers grow. Do you understand my pain? Are you willing to risk it all or is your love in vain?

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

Walkin' through the leaves fallin' from the trees, Feelin' like a stranger nobody sees...

I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be, and so I'm on my way home.