1,300 Quotes by Bob Dylan

Up on Housing Project Hill It's either fortune or fame You must pick one or the other Though neither of them are to be what they claim

Sometimes you get out from behind the wheel and let someone else step on the gas.

You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows. Don't follow leaders watch the parkin' meters.

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young. Back then I guess most of my influences could be thought of as eccentric. Mass media had no overwhelming reach so I was drawn to the traveling performers passing through.

I used to think it's better if you just live and die and no one knows who you are.

Both these girls . . . brought out the poet in me.

Twenty years of schoolin' / And they put you on the day shift.

Every singer has three or four or five techniques, and you can force them together in different combinations. Some of the techniques you discard along the way, and pick up others. But you do need them. It's just like anything. You have to know certain things about what you're doing that other people don't know. Singing has to do with techniques and how many you use at the same time. One alone doesn't work. There's no point to going over three. But you might interchange them whenever you feel like it. It's a bit like alchemy.

Blame it on a simple twist of fate.