Explore Quotes by Bob Dylan

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

I hurt easy, I just don't show it. You can hurt someone and not even know it.

Art is a never-ending dance of illusions.

I've never gone for having a great voice, for cultivating one. I'm still not doing it now.

I’m in awe of McCartney. He’s about the only one that I am in awe of. He can do it all. And he’s never let up... He’s just so damn effortless.

I don't write the songs; I just write 'em down.

And I'll know my song well before I start singing

My songs are personal music, they're not communal. I wouldn't want people singing along with me. It would sound funny. I'm not playing campfire meetings. I don't remember anyone singing along with Elvis, Carl Perkins or Little Richard.

For the loser now _x000D_ Will be later to win

Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem.

The ghosts race towards the light, you can almost hear the heavy breathing spirits, all determined to get somewhere. New Orleans, unlike a lot of places you go back to and that don't have the magic anymore, still has got it. Night can swallow you up, yet none of it touches you. You can't see it, but you know it's here. Somebody's always sinking.

Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise. I mean, you're around awhile, you leave certain things to the young. Don't try to act like you're young. You could really hurt yourself.

How many roads must a man walk down.. Before you can call him a Man.

I just wanted a song to sing, and there came a point where I couldn't sing anything...nobo dy else was writing what I wanted to sing. I couldn't find it anywhere. If I could I probably would never have started writing.

Everything in New Orleans is a good idea.

I am a restless soul hungry perhaps wretched.

Sometimes I wonder what it's gonna take to find dignity.

Without freedom of speech, I might be in the swamp

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

People think they know me from my songs. But my repertoire of songs is so wide-ranging that you'd have to be a madman to figure out the characteristics of the person who wrote all those songs.

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