A List of Famous Bob Dylan Quotes

Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.

A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you've been up on the mountain, now you go down. You're on your own, free. Check in later, but now you're on your own.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past -- whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

How many times must the cannonballs fly before they're forever banned?

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

Democracy don't rule the world, you better get that in your head; this world is ruled by violence, but I guess that's better left unsaid.

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.

Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.

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.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around -- the music and the ideas.

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

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I've got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.

In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.

Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I'm not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I've never thought about that before! He said, When you're not following me, you're resisting me.

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

Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that's going on right now in a big way.

Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon --but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx --the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?

Well, I don't know, but I've been told the streets in heaven are lined with gold. I ask you how things could get much worse if the Russians happen to get up there first; Wowee! pretty scary!

Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!

I like Henry Miller. I think he's the greatest American writer