1,300 Quotes by Bob Dylan

I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken, I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children, And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

Love is all there is, it makes the world go around. Love and only love, it can't be denied.

There used to be a time when the idea of heroes was important. People grew up sharing those myths and legends and ideals. Now they grow up sharing McDonalds and Disneyland.

Good and bad, I define these terms, quite clear, no doubt, somehow.

You're better than no one and no one is better than you.

The "joker" here ["All Along the Watchtower" ] is the older [Bob] Dylan himself, whining about exploitation, and the thief's rejoinder re-contextualizes the earlier critique into the religious frames that would become more prominent as time went on.

Cop comes down the street crazy as a loon, he throws us in jail for carrying harpoons.

If I had rubies, riches, and crowns, I'd buy the whole world and change things around.

..When I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody ... hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail