“I think I have a dualistic nature.”
Nature
“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.”
ChangeAll Quotes by Bob Dylan
“Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.”
Future“I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.”
Beauty“You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.”
Experience“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.”
Change“Money doesn't talk, it swears.”
Money“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“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“All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.”
Truth“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“I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.”
Good“I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come.”
Power“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“It's not easy to define poetry.”
Poetry“A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.”
Freedom“I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.”
Dreams“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“People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.”
Music“What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.”
Good“I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.”
Music