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)
I'm just trying to stay out of the way of the next big thing.
Death is not the end, it's just the beginning of a new journey.
I've been through some things, and I've learned a lot.
The only way to be truly free is to let go of everything.
I'm just a simple man, trying to make my way in the universe.
The only truth is that there is no truth.
I'm not a spokesman for anything or anybody.
You're gonna have to serve somebody. Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord, but you're gonna have to serve somebody.
I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.
There's no black and white, left and right to me. There's only up and down and in and out.
I don't have to be me, I'm just me.
The world is a spinning ball, and we're all just trying to hang on.
I just write songs. I don't have any messages.
I don't think I'm a prophet or a savior. I just write songs.
The more you see, the less you know.
There's no such thing as a good old day.
I don't carry a badge. I don't carry a gun. I don't carry a cross.
I'm not going to sing any songs that I don't want to sing.
You can't be true to anybody if you're not true to yourself.
I don't think of myself as a political artist.
Contemporaries of Bob Dylan
Other Musics born within 50 years of Bob Dylan (1941).