Bob Dylan

You have to know that you're the best whether anybody else tells you that or not.

It's that I'm not guilty. I'm not any more guilty than you are. Like, I don't consider any elder generation guilty...

Hey, I can't put anything down, because I don't have to be around any of it. I don't have to put people down who I don't like because I don't have to be around any of those people.

I don't know where it's at, all I know is where it's not at.

Carelessness. I lost my one true love. I started drinking. The first thing I know, I'm in a card game. Then I'm in a crap game. I wake up in a pool hall. Then this big Mexican lady drags me off the table, takes me to Philadelphia. She leaves me alone in her house, and it burns down. I wind up in Phoenix. I get a job as a Chinaman. I start working in a dime store, and move in with a 13-year-old girl.

You can't be wise and in love at the same time.

Great paintings shouldn't be in museums. Have you ever been in a museum? Museums are cemeteries. Paintings should be on the walls of restaurants, in dime stores, in gas stations, in men's rooms. Great paintings should be where people hang out. The only thing where it's happening is on radio and records, that's where people hang out. You can't see great paintings. You pay half a million and hang one in your house and one guest sees it. That's not art. That's a shame, a crime.

You don't really serve art, art serves you and it's only an expression of life anyway; it's not real life.

I just write songs. And I like to write songs. And I don't write them for any other reason. And I don't care what they do with them.

I think of myself more as a song and dance man, you know. I'm not a poet.

I don't have to please nobody. I don't have to be nobody but myself.

I consider myself a spokesman for nobody.

I'm not a protest singer.

I'm not gonna say anything that I don't feel.

I don't like to think of myself as a genius. I think of myself as a worker.

I just don't have anything to say about anything that's going on now. I'm not a politician.

I don't write for any audience. I write for myself.

I don't know what I'm doing half the time. And I never have.

I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it in the words.

I'm not a voice of a generation. I'm a voice of a generation of voices.