Bob Dylan
Nobel laureate, transformed popular song into literature
Most quoted
"Sometimes you say things in songs even if there's a small chance of them being true. And sometimes you say things that have nothing to do with the truth of what you want to say and sometimes you say things that everyone knows to be true."
— from Interview
"Come senators, congressmen, please heed the call. Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall. For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled. The battle outside ragin' will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls."
— from Song (The Times They Are a-Changin'), 1963
"Some people feel that if you just want to be a rock 'n' roll singer or something, then you should go for it. But I think that if you're not, then you should be honest about it."
— from Interview, 1965
All quotes by Bob Dylan (310)
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, the answer is blowin' in the wind.
You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between does what he wants to do.
Don't criticize what you can't understand.
He not busy being born is busy dying.
Money doesn't talk, it swears.
I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.
The only truth is music.
You can't be wise and in love at the same time.
Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
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.
I accept chaos. I'm not sure whether it accepts me.
The future for me is already a thing of the past.
It's not a question of what's right or wrong, it's a question of what works.
I define nothing. Not beauty, not love, not goodness. I just reflect it.
People are crazy and times are strange.
Contemporaries of Bob Dylan
Other Musics born within 50 years of Bob Dylan (1941).