Quotes by Bob Dylan
A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.
I don't think I'm tangible to myself.
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.
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.
Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.
I kinda live where I find myself.
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.
Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.
I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.
You can't do something forever.
Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.
I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.
The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.
In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
Nothing can affect my voice, it's so bad.
If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.
I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.
You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.
I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
You call yourself what you want to call yourself.
The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.
A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.
I can't stand to see myself on television.
