“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.”
Change
“It's not easy to define poetry.”
PoetryAll 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.”
Beauty“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“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.”
Home“All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.”
Truth“All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.”
Equality“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“Folk music is a bunch of fat people.”
Music“It's not easy to define poetry.”
Poetry“You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.”
Experience“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“I'm sick of giving creeps money off my soul.”
Money“There is nothing so stable as change.”
Change“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“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“I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.”
Music“I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.”
Dreams“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“What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.”
Good“I think I have a dualistic nature.”
Nature