Quotes from Bob Dylan

You can hurt someone and not even know it.

Remembrance of things past, I do that all the time.

Night can swallow you up, yet none of it touches you. Around any corner, there's a promise of something daring and ideal and things are just getting going. There's something obscenely joyful behind every door, either that or somebody crying with their head in in their hands. A lazy rhythm looms in the dreamy air and the atmosphere pulsates with bygone duels, past-life romance, comrades requesting comrades to aid them in some way. You can't see it, but you know it's there

People need to be encouraged, not stepped on and put in a straitjacket!

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

When Johnson started singing, he seemed like a guy who could have sprung from the head of Zeus in full armor.

look, you know i don't wanna come on ungrateful, but that warren report, you know as well as me, just didn't make it. You know, like they might as well have asked some banana salesman from des moines, who was up in toronto on the big day, if he saw anyone around looking suspicious/...

I march in the parade of liberty But as long as I love you I'm not free How long must I suffer such abuse Won't you let me see you smile one time before I turn you loose?

Funny, how the things you have the hardest time parting with are the things you need the least.

She's got everything she needs; she's an artist, she don't look back.

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.

your problem is that you wanna better word for world

In the valley of the giants where the stars and stripes explode, the peaches they were sweet and the milk and honey flowed.

And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin' But I'll know my song well before I start singin

I really was never any more than what I was -a folk musician who gazed into the gray mist with tear-blinded eyes and made up songs that floated in a luminous haze.

Peace will come With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall..

People are crazy and times are strange, I'm locked in tight I'm out of range, I use to care but things have changed.

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.

In the dime stores and bus stations People talk of situations Read books, repeat quotations Draw conclusions on the wall Some speak of the future My love she speaks softly She knows there's no success like failure And that failure's no success at all -Bob Dylan, "Love Minus Zero / No Limit" (1965)

An' here I sit so patiently Waiting to find out what price You have to pay to get out of Going through all these things twice Oh, Mama, can this really be the end To be stuck inside of Mobile With the Memphis blues again -Bob Dylan, "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again" (1966)

It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry

The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handle

Absolutely, he says. If it's at all possible.

What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not threatening - all bunk. No guarantees of anything, not even the guarantee that life isn't one big joke.