If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me..

The hallmark of an artist is generosity..

When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild..

Probably the deepest use of music and of art is to create conscience..

Technology changes nothing..

Listen, the story of the United States is this: One kid, without anything, walks out of his house, down the road, with nothing but a guitar and conqu….

The essence of show business is, if you see a tight-rope walker go across a tight rope, everybody claps. But, if you see him wobble, everybody gasps..

I naturally wanted to be saved, so when I came home I told my mom I wanted to be confirmed. That's the way I related to it, being raised an Episcopal….

The more perfect music we have, the more attractive the peculiarities and anomalies of human performance become. Perfection is a second rate idea..

Honesty is the most subversive of all disguises..

Music was the medium through which knowledge was passed from generation to generation..

Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is ab….

I think, especially among the New York intelligentsia at that time, that there was a reason Bob Dylan went to New York to happen, because there was a….

Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan..

It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and loud….

The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of t….

We live in an age of music for people who don't like music. The record industry discovered some time ago that there aren't that many people who actua….

In other words, I'd say the whole story of Bob Dylan is one man's search for God. The turns and the steps he takes to find God are his business. I th….

We live in an age lit by lightnin'; after the flash, we're blind again..

I don't want to make music for people who don't care about music..

You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it..