Bob Dylan Quotes About Philosophy

Quotes about: Philosophy

• Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

  Bob Dylan

  Music, Religious, Philosophy

  "Dylan Revisited" by David Gates, www.newsweek.com. October 5, 1997.

• If I lived my life by what others were thinkin', the heart inside me would've died.

  Bob Dylan

  Philosophy, Heart, Died

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.509, Simon and Schuster

• The tree of life is growing where the spirit never dies, and the bright light of salvation shines in dark and empty skies.

  Bob Dylan

  Philosophy, Dark, Light

  Song: Death is Not The End, Album: Down In The Groove, 1988

• Time is an ocean, but it ends at the shore.

  Bob Dylan

  Philosophy, Ocean, Ends

  Song: Oh, Sister, Album: Desire

• Life is sad, life is a bust, all you can do is do what you must.

  Bob Dylan

  Philosophy, Sad Life, Life Is

  Bob Dylan (2013). “Lyrics:1962-2012”, p.496, Simon and Schuster

• The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie. Then you're all the time defending what you can never justify.

  Bob Dylan

  Philosophy, Lying, Truth Is

  Song: Trouble in Mind

• let me forget about today until tomorrow

  Bob Dylan

  Philosophy, Today, Tomorrow

  "Mr. Tambourine Man" (song) (1964)

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

  Bob Dylan

  Hate, Philosophy, Men

  Song: Blowin' In The Wind

• Don't put my faith in nobody, not even a scientist.

  Bob Dylan

  Philosophy, Scientist

  Song: Do Right to Me Baby, Album: Slow Train Coming, 1979

• Pain sure does bring out the best in people, doesn't it?

  Bob Dylan

  Pain, Philosophy, People

• Every cause that ever I fought, I fought it full without regret or shame.

  Bob Dylan

  Regret, Philosophy, Causes

  Song: Restless Farewell

• The enemy is subtle, how be it we are so deceived, when truth's in our hearts and we still don't believe.

  Bob Dylan

  Philosophy, Believe, Heart

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.570, Simon and Schuster

• Good and bad, I define these terms, quite clear, no doubt, somehow.

  Bob Dylan

  Philosophy, Doubt, Good And Bad

  Song: My Back Pages, Album: Another Side Of Bob Dylan

• I can't see my reflection in the waters, I can't speak the sounds that show no pain. I can't hear the echo of my footsteps, or can't remember the sound of my own name.

  Bob Dylan

  Pain, Philosophy, Reflection

  Song: Tomorrow Is A Long Time

• Is your money that good, will it buy you forgiveness?

  Bob Dylan

  Philosophy, Good Will

  Song: Masters Of War, Album: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, 1963

• Ain't it hard when you discover that, he wasn't really where it's at, after he took from you everything he could steal. How does it feel?

  Bob Dylan

  Philosophy, Doe, Stealing

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.206, Simon and Schuster

• Nothing is better, nothing is best, take heed of this and get plenty of rest.

  Bob Dylan

  Philosophy, Heed, Plenty

  Song: Nothing Was Delivered, Album: The Basement Tapes, 1975

• Crimson flames tied through my ears rolling high and mighty traps, pounced with fire on flaming roads using ideas as my maps.

  Bob Dylan

  Philosophy, Flames, Ideas

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

• The truth was obscure, Too profound and too pure, To live it you had to explode

  Bob Dylan

  Truth, Philosophy, Profound

  Song: Where Are You Tonight?

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