“It's not easy to define poetry.”
Poetry
“I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.”
GoodAll Quotes by Bob Dylan
“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“Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.”
Money“All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.”
Equality“I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.”
Music“You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.”
Experience“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“At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.”
Life“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.”
Music“I'm more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.”
Relationship“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.”
Dreams“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“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“All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.”
Truth“I think I have a dualistic nature.”
Nature“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“I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.”
Love“Money doesn't talk, it swears.”
Money“Folk music is a bunch of fat people.”
Music