Quotes by Bob Dylan
Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.
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 define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible.
A lot of people don't like the road, but it's as natural to me as breathing.
What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.
Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.
It's not easy to define poetry.
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.
People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young.
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.
I never saw myself as a folk singer.
You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.
I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.
I think I have a dualistic nature.
I stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed... so drastically, I couldn't believe it myself.
You can't be happy by doing something groovy.
All I can do is be me, whoever that is.
A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
A song is anything that can walk by itself.
You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.
Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.
My range is limited.
