Quotes from Bob Dylan

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

It's not easy to define poetry.

The real power is in the hands of small groups of people and I don't think they have titles.

Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb/I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from/Don't even hear a murmur of a prayer/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.

Warlords of sorrow and queens of tomorrow will offer their heads for a prayer. You can't find no salvation, you have no expectations anytime, anyplace, anywhere.

You can't be wise and in love at the same time.

Anger and jealousy's all that he sells us, he's content when you're under his thumb. Madmen oppose him, but your kindness throws him, to survive it you play deaf and dumb.

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Situations have ended sad, Relationships have all been bad.

In the fury of the moment/ I can see the Master's hand In every leaf that trembles, in/ every grain of sand.

There are no truths outside the Gates of Eden.

I bargained for salvation and they gave me a lethal dose.

I said, you know they refused Jesus, too. He said, you're not him.

For them that must obey authority/That they do not respect in any degree/Who despise their jobs, their destinies/Speak jealously of them that are free

Suddenly I found you and the spirit in me sings, Don't have to look no further, You're the soul of many things.

She had bullets in her eyes and they fired.

I'll always thank the Lord when my working day is through, I get my sweet reward to be alone with you.

If I had the stars from the darkest night and the diamonds from the deepest ocean, I'd forsake them all for your sweet kiss, for that's all I'm wishin' to be ownin'.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.