50 Bold & Unexpected Bob Dylan Quotes

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Which are your favorite Bob Dylan quotes?

Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, author, and visual artist. He was a folk/rock superstar and the most influential songwriter in the pop/rock idiom.

Dylan is one of the most famous and successful popular singers of all time. He released ‘Like a Rolling Stone’, which has been called the greatest popular music song of all time. In 2016, He has received the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Here’s a collection of the greatest Bob Dylan quotes:

 

50 Bold & Unexpected Bob Dylan Quotes

1. “Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.” – Bob Dylan

2. “People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around – the music and the ideas.” – Bob Dylan

3. “Money doesn’t talk, it swears.” – Bob Dylan

4. “A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.” – Bob Dylan

5. “Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.” – Bob Dylan

6. “I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.” – Bob Dylan

7. “I stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed… so drastically, I couldn’t believe it myself.” – Bob Dylan

8. “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.” – Bob Dylan

9. “All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.” – Bob Dylan

 

10th of 50 Bob Dylan Quotes

10. “To live outside the law, you must be honest.” – Bob Dylan

 

11. “Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it’s like they didn’t fade away at all.” – Bob Dylan

12. “I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.” – Bob Dylan

13. “At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.” – Bob Dylan

14. “I kinda live where I find myself.” – Bob Dylan

15. “Just because you like my stuff doesn’t mean I owe you anything.” – Bob Dylan

16. “He not busy being born is busy dying.” – Bob Dylan

17. “I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.” – Bob Dylan

18. “I’m speaking for all of us. I’m the spokesman for a generation.” – Bob Dylan

19. “I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there’s some kind of change.” – Bob Dylan

 

20th of 50 Bob Dylan Quotes

20. “A poem is a naked person… Some people say that I am a poet.” – Bob Dylan

 

21. “I’m inconsistent, even to myself.” – Bob Dylan

22. “I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.” – Bob Dylan

23. “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.” – Bob Dylan

24. “I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.” – Bob Dylan

25. “What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.” – Bob Dylan

26. “Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.” – Bob Dylan

27. “A song is anything that can walk by itself.” – Bob Dylan

28. “Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.” – Bob Dylan

29. “In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.” – Bob Dylan

 

30th of 50 Bob Dylan Quotes

30. “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.” – Bob Dylan

 

31. “Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.” – Bob Dylan

32. “People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.” – Bob Dylan

33. “I have dined with kings, I’ve been offered wings. And I’ve never been too impressed.” – Bob Dylan

34. “If I wasn’t Bob Dylan, I’d probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.” – Bob Dylan

35. “I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.” – Bob Dylan

36. “A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.” – Bob Dylan

37. “I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.” – Bob Dylan

38. “I’m mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it’s the only place where I’m happy.” – Bob Dylan

39. “I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.” – Bob Dylan

 

40th of 50 Bob Dylan Quotes

40. “No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.” – Bob Dylan

 

41. “It’s hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.” – Bob Dylan

42. “But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.” – Bob Dylan

43. “The land created me. I’m wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I’m more at home in the vacant lots.” – Bob Dylan

44. “Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.” – Bob Dylan

45. “Chaos is a friend of mine.” – Bob Dylan

46. “I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.” – Bob Dylan

47. “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.” – Bob Dylan

48. “I’ve never written a political song. Songs can’t save the world. I’ve gone through all that.” – Bob Dylan

49. “In ceremonies of the horsemen, Even the pawn must hold a grudge.” – Bob Dylan

50. “Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.” – Bob Dylan

 

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Zisilia Alvsa
Zisilia Alvsa
Zisilia Alvsa is a writer for Wealthy Gorilla. Friends often call her Zii. She is a girl from Jakarta, Indonesia who currently lives in Bali. Zii loves photography and travelling.

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