Quotes from Bob Dylan

If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure

She knows there's no success like failure, and that failure's no success at all.

I failed to communicate, that's why I chose to leave

We don't see the people that vice destroys. We just see the glamour of it - everywhere we look, from billboard signs to movies, to newspapers, to magazines. We see the destruction of human life.

You just have to keep going to find that thing that lets you in the door. Sometimes in life when that day comes and you're given the key, you throw it away.

If you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.

You can't do something forever.

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.

I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.

Every day is the same thing out the door Feel further away then ever before Some things in life, it gets too late to learn Well, I'm lost somewhere I must have made a few bad turns

Mothers tell your children not to do the things I have done, to spend my life in sin and misery in the House of the Rising Sun.

For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.

The whole world's a bottle, And life's but a dram, When the bottle gets empty, It sure ain't worth a damn.

You say you're looking for someone who'll pick you up each time you fall, to gather flowers constantly and to come each time you call, a lover your life and nothing more. But it ain't me, babe.

He gambled all his life, he's got 27 children, yet he's never had a wife.

There's been rumors of war and wars that have been The meaning of life has been lost in the wind And some people thinkin' that the end is close by 'Stead of learnin' to live they are learnin' to die

Advertising signs: they con you into thinking you're the one That can do what's never been done That can win what's never been won Meantime life outside goes on all around you

There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate, so let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.

I gotta friend who spends his life, stabbing my picture with a bowie knife. Dreams of strangling me with a scarf, when my name comes up he pretends to barf.

My range is limited.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come.