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.
— Bob Dylan
No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.
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.
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?
Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.
I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.
I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.
I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.
Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
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.
I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon.
Money doesn't talk, it swears.
I'm inconsistent, even to myself.
Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.
To live outside the law, you must be honest.
All I can do is be me, whoever that is.
In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.
What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
I'm speaking for all of us. I'm the spokesman for a generation.
I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.
Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.
Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
He not busy being born is busy dying.
Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.
I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.
Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
There is nothing so stable as change.
I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.
But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.
I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.
Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.
Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.
If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.
I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere.
At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.
A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
The radio makes hideous sounds.
Chaos is a friend of mine.
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.
