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)
To live outside the law, you must be honest.
She's got everything she needs, she's an artist, she don't look back.
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with power.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
There's something about me that people give me nicknames.
I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.
All I can do is be me, whoever that is.
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.
The future is no place to place your better days.
Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door.
Tangled up in blue.
Idiot wind, blowing like a circle around my skull.
Gonna have to serve somebody.
Every step of the way we walk the line. Your lot in life is not your fate.
I used to care, but things have changed.
There must be some way out of here, said the joker to the thief.
Like a Rolling Stone.
How does it feel, to be on your own, with no direction home, a complete unknown, like a rolling stone?
The lonesome sparrow sings its song.
Art is the perpetual disappointment.
Contemporaries of Bob Dylan
Other Musics born within 50 years of Bob Dylan (1941).