1,300 Quotes by Bob Dylan

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.

Done laid around, done stayed around This old town too long And it seems like I've got to travel on

We have never arrived. We are in a constant state of becoming.

For whose sake did you live, for whose sake did you die? Forgive me, baby, for what I didn't do.

The land of milk and honey, they say it is the land of money.

Sing your praise of progress and the doom machine, the naked truth is still taboo whenever it can be seen.

And for each unharmful gentle soul misplaced inside a jail...

When you got nothin' / You got nothin' to lose.

One night around that time, at Hammersmith, Bob Dylan was about to go into [his 1963 classic] 'Don't Think Twice, It's Alright.He said, 'Hey, Bucky! Play mandolin on this.' I am not really a mandolin player; I could only play in certain keys. Halfway through, he stops the band, turns to the audience and points to me. He says: 'He isn't playing, he's miming.' And then: 'Should I fire him?' The whole audience yells.