1,300 Quotes by Bob Dylan

By combining certain elements of technique which ignite each other I could shit the levels of perception, time-frame structures and systems of rythm which would give my songs a brighter countenance, call them up from the grave [...] It was like parts of my psyche were being communicated to by angels. There was a big fire in the fireplace and the wind was making it roar.

I am mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it's the only place where I'm happy.

I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be...

I failed to communicate, that's why I chose to leave

You better start swimming, or you'll sink like a stone. Because the Time's they are a-changing.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

look, you know i don't wanna come on ungrateful, but that warren report, you know as well as me, just didn't make it. You know, like they might as well have asked some banana salesman from des moines, who was up in toronto on the big day, if he saw anyone around looking suspicious/...

People were people.