Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

36 quotes

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."

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“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

All Quotes by Bob Dylan

“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

“A hero is someone who understands the 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

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

— Bob Dylan

Life

“Folk music is a bunch of fat people.”

— Bob Dylan

Music

“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.”

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

— Bob Dylan

Money

“I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.”

— Bob Dylan

Good

“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

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

— Bob Dylan

Experience

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

— Bob Dylan

Death

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

— Bob Dylan

Music

“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 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

“Money doesn't talk, it swears.”

— Bob Dylan

Money

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

— Bob Dylan

Equality

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

— Bob Dylan

Love

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

— Bob Dylan

Truth

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

— Bob Dylan

Music