Quotes from Bob Dylan

People do whatever they want to do, y'know.

You swore you'd never compromise With the mystery tramp, but now you realise He's not selling any alibis As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes And say, do you want to make a deal How does it feel

Abe said, where do you want this killing done? God said, out on highway 61.

God is in heaven, and we all want what's his. But power and greed and corruptible seed seem to be all that there is.

A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible.

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.

The people in my songs are all me.

I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon.

I'm sick of giving creeps money off my soul.

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.

The radio makes hideous sounds.

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free? Yes. 'n' how many times can a man turn his head pretending he just doesn't see? The answer, my friend is blowin' in the wind.

Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.

I'm more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

Hold it, Doc, a world war passed through my brain. He said, Nurse, get your pad, this boy's insane.

Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.

They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.

I'm speaking for all of us. I'm the spokesman for a generation.

"Tangled Up in Blue," shifts perspective several times during the song to tell a "tangled" version of [Bob] Dylan's marriage and dissolution.

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?