Quotes from Bob Dylan

Be groovy or leave, man

If you're looking to get silly, you better go back to from where you came. because the cops don't need you and man they expect the same.

She knows there's no success like failure, and that failure's no success at all.

With your silhouette when the sunlight dims Into your eyes where the moonlight swims, And your match-book songs and your gypsy hymns, Who among them would try to impress you? -Bob Dylan, Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" (1966)

They say everything can be replaced, Yet every distance is not near. So I remember every face Of every man who put me here. I see my light come shining From the west unto the east. Any day now, any day now, I shall be released.

my father was the best man in the world and probably worth a hundred of me, but he didn't understand me. The town he lived in and the town I lived in were not the same.

It's east to see without lookin' too far that not much is really sacred.

Upon four-legged forest clouds the cowboy angel rides

Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks.

I find C major to be the key of strength, but also the key of regret. E major is the key of confidence. A-flat major is the key of renunciation.

We all like motorcycles to some degree.

A lot of people don't have much food on their table. But they got a lot of forks 'n knives. And they got to cut somethin'.

How does it feel?

Johnny's in the basement Mixing up the medicine I'm on the pavement Thinking 'bout the government.

Hey ! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to Hey ! Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me In the jingle jangle morning I'll come followin' you. Take me on a trip upon your magic swirlin' ship My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip My toes too numb to step, wait only for my boot heels To be wanderin' I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade Into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way I promise to go under it.

No reason to get excited,' the thief, he kindly spoke, There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.

So now I'm going back again I got to get her somehow All the people we used to know They're an illusion to me now Some are mathematicians Some are carpenter's wives Don't know how it all got started I don't what they're doing with their lives But me I'm still on the road Heading for another joint We always did feel the same We just saw it from a different point of view Tangled up in Blue.

Truth was the last thing on my mind, and even if there was such a thing, I didn't want it in my house. Oedipus went looking for the truth and when he found it, it ruined him. It was a cruel horror of a joke. So much for the truth. I was gonna talk out of both sides of my mouth and what you heard depended on which side you were standing. If I ever did stumble on any truth, I was gonna sit on it and keep it down.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Anything worth thinking about is worth singing about.

Your old road is rapidly aging. Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand, For the times they are a-changin'.

God said: Abraham, kill me a son. Abe said: Man, you must be putting me on. God said: No. Abe said: What God said: You can do what you want Abe but the next time you see me coming you'd better run. Abe said: Where you want this killing done? God said: Out on Highway 61.

Everything that I'm saying You can say it just as good

In the dime stores and bus stations/ People talk of situations/ Read books, repeat quotations/ Draw conclusions on the wall