1,300 Quotes by Bob Dylan

Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?

Too much of nothing can turn a man into a liar. It can cause one man to sleep on nails and another to eat fire.

Popular music had never had lyrical sophistication of this type [like Bob Dylan]; wit, to be sure, but "Darkness at the break of noon/Shadows even the silver spoon/The handmade blade, the child's balloon/Eclipses both the sun and moon/To understand you know too soon/ There is no sense in trying"? No.

For that I cannot say. There isn't really an answer.

The inmates and prisoners, I found they were my kind, and it was there inside the bars I found my peace of mind.

I just try to understand that tomorrow is another day.

When the deeds that you do don't add up to zero.

Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.

And it's a hard, It's a hard, It's a hard, It's a hard, It's a hard rain gonna fall.