“People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.”
Music
“Folk music is a bunch of fat people.”
MusicAll Quotes by Bob Dylan
“I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.”
Dreams“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.”
Music“I'm sick of giving creeps money off my soul.”
Money“I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.”
Music“A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.”
Freedom“It's not easy to define poetry.”
Poetry“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.”
Money“I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.”
Beauty“There is nothing so stable as change.”
Change“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 theres some kind of change.”
Change“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.”
Power“I'm more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.”
Relationship“I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.”
Architecture“You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.”
Experience“The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.”
Home“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.”
Music“All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.”
Truth“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.”
Music“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.”
Death