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 don't have all the answers. In life, to be honest, I failed as a person, not as a musician.
Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got noticed.
I really didn't consider myself a writer until I was a songwriter.
A song is like a dream, and you just wake up from that dream.
The truth is, I don't care about money.
I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know well what I am.
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties.
In the end, it's all about the music.
I was born very young in a very old country.
My songs are personal music, they're not communal. I wouldn't want people singing along with me.
The only person you have to please is yourself.
I don't see myself as a revolutionary, but simply as someone who wants the world to be a little more like it is.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
You learn from a disaster. You don't learn from a victory.
I'm not a politician. I'm just a musician.
The past is a bucket of ashes.
One thing I can't stand is when people say, 'Hi, how are you?' I say, 'Fine,' but I'm not fine.
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility of being a hero.
Yes, and how many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free?
Yes, and how many times can a man turn his head and pretend that he just doesn't see?
Contemporaries of Bob Dylan
Other Musics born within 50 years of Bob Dylan (1941).