Bob Dylan Quotes

Bob Dylan, whose real name is Robert Allen Zimmerman, is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and poet. He is regarded as one of the most influential figures in popular music and has had a profound impact on songwriting and the music industry as a whole. Dylan's iconic songs, such as "Blowin' in the Wind," "Like a Rolling Stone," and "The Times They Are a-Changin'," are regarded as classics. His lyrics often reflect social and political themes, and he has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Nobel Prize in Literature. Dylan's contributions to music and his poetic expression have made him a legendary figure in the world of songwriting.

I'm more of an adventurous type than a relationshi... -Bob Dylan

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

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

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.

There is nothing so stable as change.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

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

A hero is someone who understands the responsibili... -Bob Dylan

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

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

I consider myself a poet first and a musician seco... -Bob Dylan

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

It's not easy to define poetry.

Discovering the context

This quote acknowledges the difficulty in providing a precise definition of poetry, indicating that poetry eludes easy categorization or description due to its varied forms, styles, and subjective interpretations.

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the ... -Bob Dylan

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

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.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

Discovering the context

This quote uses humor to playfully stereotype folk music enthusiasts as "fat people," demonstrating the absurdity of making such generalizations about music lovers.

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 theres some kind of change.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fas... -Bob Dylan

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

Bob Dylan Quotes

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