Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

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As an American singer-songwriter (b. 1941), Bob Dylan contributed not just to their field but to the broader conversation about what it means to live well. Bob Dylan's observations on Music are as sharp as their thoughts on Money, revealing genuine breadth of mind. Discover 49 of Bob Dylan's most memorable quotes, ranging across Music, Money, Change, Truth, and Time. Readers often gravitate to this one: "It's not easy to define poetry."

“I'm sick of giving creeps money off my soul.”

— Bob Dylan

Money

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“I'm more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.”

— Bob Dylan

Relationship

“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.”

— Bob Dylan

Death

“What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.”

— Bob Dylan

Good

“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

Home

“My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.”

— Bob Dylan

Home

“Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.”

— Bob Dylan

Death

“It's not easy to define poetry.”

— Bob Dylan

Poetry

“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

Dreams

“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

Change

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

— Bob Dylan

Freedom

“All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.”

— Bob Dylan

Truth

“There is nothing so stable as change.”

— Bob Dylan

Change

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

— Bob Dylan

Life

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

— Bob Dylan

Freedom

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

— Bob Dylan

Love

“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.”

— Bob Dylan

Music

“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.”

— Bob Dylan

Music

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

— Bob Dylan

Beauty

“I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.”

— Bob Dylan

Dreams

“I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.”

— Bob Dylan

Music