Quotes from Bob Dylan

Hearing about Hank's death caught me squarely on the shoulder. The silence of outer space never seemed so loud.

You're born with the wrong names, wrong parents. I mean, that happens. You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free.

Something is happening but you don't know what it is.

In my dreams, crowds were chanting, challenging me, shouting, Follow us and fit in! I wanted to tell him that life itself has turned into a prowling lion. I wanted to tell him that I needed to escape the blaze of bullshit.

Remember, Robert, in life anything can happen. Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want. - Father

Destiny is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have in your own mind of what you're about will come true. It's a kind of a thing you kind of have to keep to your own self, because it's a fragile feeling, and you put it out there, then someone will kill it. It's best to keep that all inside.

She said "where you been?" I said "no place special" She said "you look different" I said "well, I guess" She said "you been gone" I said "that's only natural" She said "you gonna stay?" I said "if you want me to, yes

Lifelessness is the Great Enemy & always wears a hip guard --

Sometimes that's all it takes, the kind of recognition that comes when you're doing the thing for the thing's sake and you're on to something—it's just that nobody recognizes it yet.

And you know something is happening but you don't know what it is

What good am I if I know and don't do. If I see and don't say.

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. • • •

I can hear the turning of the key I've been deceived by the clown inside of me I thought that he was righteous but he's vain Oh, something's a-telling me I wear the ball and chain My patron saint is a-fighting with a ghost He's always off somewhere when I need him most

I once loved a woman, a child I am told

I wrote you a song about a funny old world that's coming along. It seems sick and it's hungry, it's tired and it's torn. It looks like it's dying and it's hardly been born.

A saxophone someplace far off played / As she was walkin' on by the arcade / As the light burst through a beat-up shade where he was wakin' up / She dropped a coin into the cup of a blind man at the gate / And forgot about a simple twist of fate

It felt like my heart leaped up to the sky, to some intergalactic star.

Half of the people can be part right all of the time, Some of the people can be all right part of the time. I think Abraham Lincoln said that. 'I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours,' I said that.

It has always been my nature to take chances My right-hand drawing while my left-hand advances Bob Dylan

The alliance between Suze and me didn't turn out exactly to be a holiday in the woods. Eventually fate flagged it down and it came to a full stop. It had to end. She took one turn in the road and I took another.

The chilling precision that these old-timers used in coming up with their songs was no small thing.

I offered up my innocence and got repaid with scorn

But you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fears Take the rag away from your face Now ain't the time for your tears.

A lot of time you have to go down many roads to get where you are going…. The important thing is to keep moving…. Or else to stop by the side of the road every once in a while and build a house. I guess that's about the best thing anyone can do.