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)
A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.
I'd rather be in the mountains thinking of God, than in church thinking about the mountains.
I'm not going to go down the line eating fire for people anymore.
Destiny is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself that nobody else does. The picture you have in your own mind of what you're about will come true.
I think the world is like it is and we're just here, that's all.
I'm just one person, you know? I'm just one person doing what I do.
Chaos is a friend of mine.
I'm not a melodist. My songs are either based on old Protestant hymns or Carter Family songs or variations of the blues form.
The world of rules is an illusion. The only reality is the world of music.
I'm not a prophet or a savior. I'm just a guy who writes songs.
Contemporaries of Bob Dylan
Other Musics born within 50 years of Bob Dylan (1941).