1,300 Quotes by Bob Dylan

The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handle

I play these [folk acoustic] concerts and I ask myself, 'Would you come see me tonight?' - and I'd have to answer truthfully, 'No, I wouldn't come. I'd rather be doin' something else, really I would. That something else is rock... The words are pictures, and the rock's gonna help me flesh out the colors of the pictures. (1965)

Come mothers and fathers. Throughout the land and don't criticize what you can't understand, your sons and your daughters are beyond your command. Your old road is Rapidly again. Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand for the times they are a-changin'.

Maybe someday you will understand, that something for nothing is everybody's plan.

"Tangled Up in Blue," shifts perspective several times during the song to tell a "tangled" version of [Bob] Dylan's marriage and dissolution.

You got men who can't hold peace and women who can't control their tongues. The rich seduce the poor, and the old seduce the young.

You five and ten cent women with nothing in your heads, I got a real gal I'm loving and Lord I'll love her 'til I'm dead.

All I've got is a red guitar, three chords and the truth.

It's like going out to the desert and screaming and then having little kids throw their sandbox at you. I'm only 24.