1,300 Quotes by Bob Dylan

songs, to me, were more important than just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of reality. Some different republic, some liberated republic... whatever the case, it wasn't that I was anti-popular culture or anything and I had no ambition to stir things up. I just thought of mainstream culture as lame as hell and a big trick. It was like the unbroken sea of frost that lay outside the window and you had to have awkward footgear to walk with.

It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry

People tell me it's a sinTo know and feel too much within

Play it fuckin' loud!

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose.

Thinking of a series of dreamsWhere the time and the tempo flyAnd there's no exit in any direction'Cept the one that you can't see with your eyes

There must be some kind of way out of here,' said the joker to the thief...