Explore Quotes by Bob Dylan

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.

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.

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.

Some formulas are too complex and I don't want anything to do with them.

It's not easy to define poetry.

I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something.

I'm not a playwright. The people in my songs are all me.

I'm mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it's the only place where I'm happy.

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

I don't think I'm tangible to myself.

Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way.

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

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

I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

A lot of people don't like the road, but it's as natural to me as breathing.