Explore Quotes by Bob Dylan

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.

The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.

I'm sick of giving creeps money off my soul.

I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible.

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young.

I stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed... so drastically, I couldn't believe it myself.

I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

You can't be happy by doing something groovy.

I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.

I'm speaking for all of us. I'm the spokesman for a generation.

The radio makes hideous sounds.

I really didn't consider myself happy or unhappy.

I'm more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.

Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.