1,300 Quotes by Bob Dylan

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.

A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.

The song was there before me, before I came along. I just sorta came down and just sorta took it down with a pencil, but it was there before I came around.

Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere.

Just in time for Bob Dylan to recoil from the attention, leave the city for Woodstock, and turn his back on fame.

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

Either I'm too sensitive, or else I'm gettin' soft