1,300 Quotes by Bob Dylan

There is a house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun, and it’s been the ruin of many a poor boy and God I know I’m one.

She never stumbles, she’s got no place to fall. She’s nobody’s child, the law can’t touch her at all.

Well, it’s always been my nature to take chances My right hand drawing back while my left hand advances.

You’re gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you’re gonna have to serve somebody...

The truth was obscure, Too profound and too pure, To live it you had to explode.

Don’t wanna marry nobody, if they’re already married.

I’ve never been able to understand the seriousness of it all, the seriousness of pride. People talk, act, live as if they’re never going to die. And what do they leave behind? Nothing. Nothing but a mask.

I’ve been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you’ve been up on the mountain, now you go down. You’re on your own, free. Check in later, but now you’re on your own.

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.