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."

“Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.”

— Bob Dylan

Money

All Quotes by Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

Good

“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

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

— Bob Dylan

Freedom

“There is nothing so stable as change.”

— Bob Dylan

Change

“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

“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 think I have a dualistic nature.”

— Bob Dylan

Nature

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

— Bob Dylan

Experience

“It's not easy to define poetry.”

— Bob Dylan

Poetry

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

— Bob Dylan

Life

“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

“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

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

— Bob Dylan

Future

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

— Bob Dylan

Truth

“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

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

— Bob Dylan

Relationship

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

— Bob Dylan

Good

“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

“Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.”

— Bob Dylan

Money

“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.”

— Bob Dylan

Change