1,300 Quotes by Bob Dylan

The purpose of music is to elevate the spirit and inspire. Not to help push some product down your throat. It puts you in tune with your own existence. Sometimes you really don't know how you feel, but really good music can define how you feel... someone who's telling me where he's been that I haven't and what it's like there - somebody whose life I can feel...

I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.

I was burned out from exhaustion, buried in the hail, poisoned in the bushes, blown out on the trail; hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the corn, "Come in," she said, "I'll give ya shelter from the storm."

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

I'd been going though his trash. He knocked me down. I was glad to see him, even though he was banging my head against the sidewalk. Afterwards these bums come over and say, 'Did he get much money?' I say, 'Money'? That was Bob Dylan.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

It goes back to the destiny thing.I made a bargain with it, you know, a long time ago. And I'm holding up my end.

Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.

God, I'm glad I'm not me.