Quotes from Bob Dylan

Time is an ocean, but it ends at the shore.

Life is sad, life is a bust, all you can do is do what you must.

Pain sure does bring out the best in people, doesn't it?

Ain't it hard when you discover that, he wasn't really where it's at, after he took from you everything he could steal. How does it feel?

You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist, and 'load every rift' of your subject with ore.

Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.

My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited poems with jazz bands.

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

Steal a little and they throw you in jail Steal a lot and they make you king.

I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.

I didn't know whether to duck or to run, so I ran.

All that foreign oil controlling American soil.

In the home of the brave, Jefferson turning over in his grave.

Don't follow leaders, watch your parkin' meters.

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.

Morality has nothing in common with politics.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you'd like to act.

God, I'm glad I'm not me.

Art can lead you to God. I think that's the purpose of everything. If it's not doing that, what's it doing? It's leading you the other way. It's certainly not leading you nowhere.

You will find God in the church of your choice.

There is a house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun, and it's been the ruin of many a poor boy and God I know I'm one.

The only person you have to think about lying twice to is either yourself or to God. The press isn't either of them. And I just figured they're irrelevant.

I'm determined to stand whether God will deliver me or not.