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."

“It's not easy to define poetry.”

— Bob Dylan

Poetry

All Quotes by Bob Dylan

“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

“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

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

— Bob Dylan

Good

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

— Bob Dylan

Love

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

— Bob Dylan

Dreams

“Folk music is a bunch of fat people.”

— Bob Dylan

Music

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

— Bob Dylan

Freedom

“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

Money

“It's not easy to define poetry.”

— Bob Dylan

Poetry

“Money doesn't talk, it swears.”

— Bob Dylan

Money

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

— Bob Dylan

Death

“There is nothing so stable as change.”

— Bob Dylan

Change

“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

“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

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

— Bob Dylan

Money

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

— Bob Dylan

Life

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

— Bob Dylan

Experience

“Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.”

— Bob Dylan

Future

“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.”

— Bob Dylan

Music

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

— Bob Dylan

Truth