Quotes from Bob Dylan

You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future.

I count the years and I shed no tears; I'm blinded to what might have been. Nature's voice makes my heart rejoice; play me the wild song of the wind.

All I'd ever done was sing songs that were dead straight and expressed powerful new realities. I had very little in common with and knew even less about a generation that I was supposed to be the voice of.

A question in your nerves is lit Yet you know there is no answer fit To satisfy, insure you not to quit To keep it in your mind and not forget That it is not he or she or them or it that you belong to...

Build me a cabin in Utah Marry me a wife, catch rainbow trout Have a bunch of kids who call me "Pa" That must be what it's all about That must be what it's all about

Now the wintertime is coming The windows are filled with frost I went to tell everybody But I could not get across Well, I wanna be your lover, baby I don't wanna be your boss Don't say I never warned you When your train gets lost.

And if you don't underestimate me, I won't underestimate you.

it ain't where you're from, its where you're going to

Philosophical dogma doesn't interest me.

It's easier to be me than someone else. But just like most famous people, I just want to be left alone most of the time.

Wagon Train was on. It seemed to be beaming in from some foreign country. I shut that off, too, and went into another room, a windowless one with a painted door--a dark cavern with a floor-to-ceiling library. I switched on the lamps. The place had an overpowering presence of literature and you couldn't help but lose your passion for dumbness.

The P'lice Department hounded him, they called him Mr. Smith. They got him on conspiracy, they were never quite sure who with.

Lay down the song you strum, And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings No voice can hope to hum.

we are singing today of the WIPE-OUT GANG - the WIPE-OUT GANG buys, owns & operates the Insanity Factory - if you do not know where the Insanity Factory is located, you should hereby take two steps to the right, paint your teeth & go to sleep....

Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail the sky cracked its poems in naked wonder, that the clinging of the church bells blew far into the breeze, leaving only bells of lightning and its thunder

Very, very protesty. And, uh, one of the protestiest of all things I ever protested against in my protest years.

Passion rules the arrow that flies.

There's a black Mercedes rollin' through the combat zone Your servants are half dead; you're down to the bone Tell me, tall man, where would you like to be overthrown Maybe down in Jerusalem or Argentina? Angelina

why be bothered with other people's set-ups? it only leads to torture.

It's like going out to the desert and screaming and then having little kids throw their sandbox at you. I'm only 24.

Definition destroys ... there's nothing definite in this world

The country music stations plays soft but there's nothing, really nothing to turn off.

20 years of schooling and they put you on the day shift.

You can be known as the most beautiful woman who ever crawled across cut glass to make a deal