Quotes from Bob Dylan

I don't know my why the number 3 is more metaphysically powerful than the number 2, but it is.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

I'm gonna walk out

There are men who reach the moon when most of us can not peel off the ground

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change.

Starry-eyed an' laughing as I recall when we were caught Trapped by no track of hours for they hanged suspended As we listened one last time an' we watched with one last look Spellbound an' swallowed 'til the tolling ended Tolling for the aching whose wounds cannot be nursed For the countless confused, accused, misused, strung-out ones an' worse An' for every hung-up person in the whole wide universe An' we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing

Then you notice the cherry blossoms, and you see that nature is unaffected by all this. Poplar trees, the red butterflies, the fragile beauty of flowers, the sun—you see how nature is indifferent to it all.

The answer my friend, is blowing in the wind. The answer is blowing in the wind

I kissed goodbye The howling beast On the borderline That separated you from me. - Idiot Wind

You drink bitter water And you been eating the bread of sorrow You can't live for today When all you're ever thinking of is tomorrow The path you've endured has been rough When you've decided that you've had enough, then Ye shall be changed, ye shall be changed In a twinkling of an eye, when the last trumpet blows The dead will arise and burst out of your clothes And ye shall be changed

Not that there's anything wrong with commercialism but like all things monetary, it's based on a leap of faith; more abstract than Frank Stella's geometrics. The only reason money is worth anything is because we agree it is. Like religion, these agreements can change according to country and culture, but those changes are merely cosmetic, usually only name and denomination. The basic tenets remain constant.

People don't value their obscurity. They don't know what it's like to have it taken away…

I think I'm gonna get me new Bob Dylan next week, get me a new Bob Dylan and use him. Here's the new Bob Dylan, see how long he lasts.

I could never sit in a room and just play all by myself. I needed to play for people and all the time. You can say I practiced in public.

But I'll know my song well before I start singin

Then there's the trap of easy rhymes.

Conceit is not necessarily a disease. It's more of a weakness.

I don't want to go to Italy no more, I don't want to go nowhere no more. You end up crashing in a private airplane, in the mountains of Tennessee... or Sicily...

Sweet Melinda The peasants call her the goddess of gloom.

Happiness is not on my list of priorities. I just deal with day-to-day things. If I'm happy, I'm happy – and if I'm not, I don't know the difference... Knowing that you are the person you were put on this earth to be – that's much more important than just being happy.

He [Ray] was working in a tool-and-die factory in Brooklyn, but before that had drifted around, had been employed at the Studebaker plant in South Bend and also at an Omaha slaughterhouse on the kill floor. Once I asked him what that was like. You ever heard of Auschwitz?

Last on the bill, not least ladies and gentlemen. Here he is, back from the grave, back straight from the grave

There was a book by Sigmund Freud, the king of the subconscious, called Beyond the Pleasure Principle. I was thumbing through it once when Ray came in, saw the book and said, "The top guys in that field work for ad agencies. They deal in air." I put the book back and never picked it up again.

I met one man who was wounded in love I met another man who was wounded with hatred