1,300 Quotes by Bob Dylan

You must be vulnerable to be sensitive to reality. And to be vulnerable is just another way of saying that one has nothing more to lose. I don't have anything but darkness to lose.

You can't be wise and in love at the same time.

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

I was lingering out on the pavement. There was a missing person inside of myself and I needed to find him . . . I felt done for, an empty burned-out wreck . . . Wherever I am, I'm a '60s troubadour, a folk-rock relic, a wordsmith from bygone days, a fictitious head of state from a place nobody knows.

We're constantly being bombarded by insulting and humiliating music, which people are making for you the way they make those Wonder Bread products. Just as food can be bad for your system, music can be bad for your spiritual and emotional feelings. It might taste good or clever, but in the long run, it's not going to do anything for you.

One should never be where one does not belong.

You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future.

I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.

I don't think I'm tangible to myself.