Bob Dylan Quotes - Page 5

Quotes about:

• There's a wall between you and what you want and you got to leap it.

  Bob Dylan

  Wall, Desire, Want

  Song: The Groom's Still Waiting at The Altar, 1981

  8 Copy quote

• Frank [Sinatra] sang to you, not at you, like so many pop singers today. Even singers of standards. I never wanted to be a singer that sings at somebody. I've always wanted to sing to somebody. I would have gotten that subliminally from Frank many years ago. Hank Williams did that, too. He sang to you.

  Bob Dylan

  Years, Singers, Today

  Source: www.aarp.org

  9 Copy quote

• I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change.

  Bob Dylan

  Future, Past, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  32 Copy quote

• One should never be where one does not belong.

  Bob Dylan

  Profound, Doe, Should

  Song: The Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest, Album: John Wesley Harding, 1967

  9 Copy quote

• I can picture the color of the song, or the shape of it, or who it is that I'm trying to appeal to, in the song, and what I'm trying to, almost, reinforce my feelings for. And I know that sounds sort of vague and abstract, but I've got a handle on it when I'm doing it.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Color, Feelings

  Source: www.rightwingbob.com

  22 Copy quote

• I'm sittin' on my watch so I can be on time.

  Bob Dylan

  Time, Watches, I Can

  Song: Bye and Bye, 2001

  8 Copy quote

• A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

  Bob Dylan

  Mistake, Making Mistakes, Commit

  Bob Dylan (2007). “Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews”, Hodder & Stoughton

  30 Copy quote

• All the people we used to know, they're an illusion to me now.

  Bob Dylan

  Friendship, People, Illusion

  Song: Tangled Up in Blue

  22 Copy quote

• every pleasure's got an edge of pain, pay your ticket and don't complain

  Bob Dylan

  Pain, Complaining, Pay

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.730, Simon and Schuster

  8 Copy quote

• I fought with my twin, the enemy within.

  Bob Dylan

  Insanity, Enemy, Twins

  17 Copy quote

• To live outside the law, you must be honest.

  Bob Dylan

  Truth, Honesty, School

  "Absolutely Sweet Marie" (song) (1966).

  7 Copy quote

• The longer you live, the better you get.

  Bob Dylan

  Bob Dylan (2007). “Dylan on Dylan: The Essential Interviews”, Hodder & Stoughton

  9 Copy quote

• Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land where justice is a game.

  Bob Dylan

  Land, Games, Justice

  Song: Hurricane, Album: Desire

  9 Copy quote

• Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb.

  Bob Dylan

  Light, Bulbs, Light Bulb

  Bob Dylan, Barry Miles, Pearce Marchbank (1978). “Bob Dylan in his own words”, Music Sales Corp

  17 Copy quote

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

  Bob Dylan

  Book, People, Looks

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.386, Simon and Schuster

  20 Copy quote

• Don't Ask Me Nothing About Nothing, I Just Might Tell You the Truth

  Bob Dylan

  Might, Ask Me, Asks

  23 Copy quote

• Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through.

  Bob Dylan

  Arrows, Truth Is, Adages

  Song: When He Returns, Album: Slow Train Coming, 1979

  20 Copy quote

• DESTINY is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have in your own mind of what you're about WILL COME TRUE. It's a kind of a thing you kind of have to keep to your own self, because it's a fragile feeling, and you put it out there, then someone will kill it. It's best to keep that all inside.

  Bob Dylan

  Destiny, Self, Feelings

  Bob Dylan, Robert Santelli (2005). “The Bob Dylan scrapbook: 1956-1966”, Egully.com

  8 Copy quote

• People's lives are filled with vice and the trappings of it. Ambition, greed and selfishness all have to do with vice. Sooner or later, you have to see through it or you don't survive.

  Bob Dylan

  Ambition, People, Greed

  7 Copy quote

• Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

  Bob Dylan

  Past, People, Identity

  Bob Dylan (2004). “Chronicles: Volume One”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

  13 Copy quote

• The times they are a-changing.

  Bob Dylan

  Time

  1964 Title of song.

  29 Copy quote

• For whose sake did you live, for whose sake did you die? Forgive me, baby, for what I didn't do.

  Bob Dylan

  Death, Baby, Forgive Me

  Song: Maybe Someday, Album: Knocked Out Loaded, 1986

  22 Copy quote

• It is the first line that gives the inspiration and then it's like riding a bull. Either you just stick with it, or you don't.

  Bob Dylan

  Inspiration, Writing, Giving

  10 Copy quote

• 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.

  14 Copy quote

• Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's pollution.

  Bob Dylan

  People, Too Much, Way

  15 Copy quote

Page 5 of 35

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin