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."

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

— Bob Dylan

Truth

All Quotes by Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

Good

“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

“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 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.”

— Bob Dylan

Power

“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.”

— Bob Dylan

Architecture

“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

“It's not easy to define poetry.”

— Bob Dylan

Poetry

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

— Bob Dylan

Death

“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

“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

“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.”

— Bob Dylan

Music

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

— Bob Dylan

Music

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

— Bob Dylan

Relationship

“Money doesn't talk, it swears.”

— Bob Dylan

Money

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

— Bob Dylan

Love

“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

“A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.”

— Bob Dylan

Freedom

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

— Bob Dylan

Good