1,300 Quotes by Bob Dylan

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.

You shouldn’t let other people get your kicks for you.

Art can lead you to God. I think that’s the purpose of everything. If it’s not doing that, what’s it doing? It’s leading you the other way. It’s certainly not leading you nowhere.

Half of the people can be part right all of the time, Some of the people can be all right part of the time. I think Abraham Lincoln said that. ‘I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours,’ I said that.

The man in the coon skin cap in the pig pen wants eleven dollar bills, you’ve only got ten.

Just a reminder, if you tell anyone about what happened with Jonah last night, I’ll destroy all of my writing and never play music again.

Music can save people, but it can’t in the commercial way it’s being used. It’s just too much. It’s pollution.

There’s beauty in the silver singing river There’s beauty in the sunrise in the sky But none of these and nothing else can match the beauty That I remember in my true love’s eyes.

You have to work out where your place is. And who you are. But we’re all spirit. That’s all we are, we’re just walking dressed up in a suit of skin, and we’re going to leave that behind.