Bob Dylan Quotes

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Bob Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941, is an American musician, singer, and songwriter. Renowned for his distinctive voice and influential lyrics, Dylan's music spans genres from folk to rock, country, and gospel, profoundly impacting music in the second half of the 20th century.

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Famous Bob Dylan Quotes

“Feeling funny in my mind, Lord I believe I'm fixing to die Well, I don't mind dying But I hate to leave my children crying Well, I look over yonder to that burying ground Look over yonder to that burying ground Sure seems lonesome, Lord, when the sun goes down”

Mind Believe Wells Looks Children Feelings Seems Death Hate Dies I Believe Lord Sun Dying Cry I Hate My Children Fixing Lonesome Burying

Author:Bob Dylan

“The atom bomb fueled the entire world that came after it. It showed that indiscriminate killing and indiscriminate homicide on a mass level was possible ... whereas if you look at warfare up until that point, you had to see somebody to shoot them or maim them, you had to look at them. You don't have to do that anymore.”

Ifs World Looks Levels Mass Killing Bombs Atoms Warfare Homicide Atom Bomb

Author:Bob Dylan

“Well, I sing by night, wander by day. I'm on the road and it looks like I'm here to stay.”

Wells Looks Night Wander

Author:Bob Dylan

“We don't see the people that vice destroys. We just see the glamour of it - everywhere we look, from billboard signs to movies, to newspapers, to magazines. We see the destruction of human life.”

People Humans Looks Destruction Vices Newspapers Magazines Human Life Glamour Billboards

Author:Bob Dylan

“You have to look at every one of your songs and be able to identify with them in a meaningful way. You can hardly sing your songs unless you're in them. If you want to fake it, go ahead. Fake it if you want. But I'm not that kind of singer.”

Ifs Way Want Looks Kind Able Song Singers Meaningful Fake

Author:Bob Dylan

“Fame it's like... When you look through a window, say you pass a little pub, or an inn. You look through the window and you see people talking and carrying on. You,can watch outside the window and see them all being very real with each other. But when you walk into the room, it's over. I don't pay any attention to it.”

People Looks Littles Real Walks Rooms Pay Attention Talking Watches Fame Window Pubs Carrying On People Talking Inns

Author:Bob Dylan

“There's not even room enough to be anywhere/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.../I was born here and I'll die here against my will/I know it looks like I'm moving, but I'm standing still.”

Knows Looks Stills Enough Moving Dies Born Dark Rooms Standing Standing Still

Author:Bob Dylan

“Look, you know i don't wanna come on ungrateful, but that warren report, you know as well as me, just didn't make it. You know, like they might as well have asked some banana salesman from des moines, who was up in toronto on the big day, if he saw anyone around looking suspicious/.”

Ifs Knows Wells Looks Bigs Might Saws Reports Suspicious Salesman Bananas Ungrateful Toronto Des Moines

Author:Bob Dylan

“How many times must a man look up Before he can see the sky? Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have Before he can hear people cry? Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows That too many people have died? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind.”

People Knows Men Looks Answers Sky Cry Wind My Friends Ears Died Look Up One Man

Author:Bob Dylan

“If ever asked to look at yourself, don't.”

Ifs Looks Look At Yourself

Author:Bob Dylan

“People disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book.”

People Looks Book

Book:The Lyrics: Since 1962

Source: The Lyrics: Since 1962

“Technology to wipe out truth is now available. Not everybody can afford it but it's available. When the cost comes down, look out!”

Looks Technology Truth Is Cost Available Wipe

Author:Bob Dylan

“Look at the sun sinkin' like a ship. Ain't that just like my heart, babe. When you kissed my lips?”

Looks Heart Sun My Heart Lips Ships Babe

Author:Bob Dylan

“Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift - look out out kid, they keep it all hid”

Years Looks Kids Twenties Schooling

Author:Bob Dylan

“They're selling postcards of the hanging They're painting the passports brown The beauty parlor is filled with sailors The circus is in town Here comes the blind commissioner They've got him in a trance One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker The other is in his pants And the riot squad they're restless They need somewhere to go As Lady and I look out tonight From Desolation Row.”

Needs Looks Hands Painting Towns Blind Filled Selling Brown Tonight Pants Tied Restless Rope Circus Riot Sailor Passports Desolation Walkers Trance Squad Parlor Postcards Commissioners

Author:Bob Dylan

“Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon -but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx -the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?”

World Looks Mean Has Beens Born Gone Greatness Died Despite Sad But True John Kennedy

Author:Bob Dylan

“How many times must a man look up, before he can see the sky?”

Men Looks Philosophy Hate Sky I Hate Look Up Hate You I Hate You

Author:Bob Dylan

“Suddenly I found you and the spirit in me sings, Don't have to look no further, You're the soul of many things.”

Love Looks Soul Spirit Found Romantic Found You

Author:Bob Dylan

“What looks large from a distance, close up ain’t never that big.”

Looks Bigs Distance

Author: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.”

Looks Culture Courses Sound Mainstream Fitting Sound Of Music Mainstream Culture

Author:Bob Dylan

“I was sick of the way my lyrics had been extrapolated, their meanings subverted into polemics and that I had been anointed as the Big Bubba of Rebellion, High Priest of Protest, the Duke of Disobedience, Leader of the Freeloaders, Kaiser of Apostasy, Archbishop of Anarchy, the Big Cheese. Horrible titles any way you want to look at it. All code words for Outlaw.”

Way Want Looks Bigs Leader Fame Sick Horrible Titles Code Protest Priests Rebellion Anarchy Cheese Disobedience Dukes Outlaw Bubba Polemics Apostasy

Author:Bob Dylan

“It may look like I'm moving but I'm standing still.”

Looks May Stills Moving Standing Standing Still

Book:The Lyrics: 1961-2012

Source: The Lyrics: 1961-2012

“Look out your window, and I'll be gone. You're the reason I'm a-traveling on.”

Looks Reason Gone Letting Go Window

Author:Bob Dylan

“Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that's going on right now in a big way.”

People Way Looks Bigs Might Age Next Taken Century Right Now Limits Look Up 80s Masturbation

Author:Bob Dylan

About the Author

Born: May 24, 1941
Known for: Musician
Quotes: 936

Books & Sources

The Lyrics: Since 1962Related source material

Dylan on Dylan: The Essential InterviewsRelated source material

The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters careerRelated source material

Chronicles, Volume OneRelated source material

ChroniclesRelated source material

The Lyrics: 1961-2012Related source material

Lyrics:1962-2012Related source material

Bob Dylan: InspirationsRelated source material

Performed Literature: Words and Music by Bob DylanRelated source material

Chronicles: Volume OneRelated source material

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