Top 500 Bob Dylan Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.”

— Bob Dylan

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2. “When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose.”

— Bob Dylan

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3. “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.”

— Bob Dylan

Featured in: Success Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Feel Good Quotes, Choices Quotes, Artist Quotes

4. “You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”

— Bob Dylan

5. “He not busy being born is busy dying.”

— Bob Dylan

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6. “The times they are a-changing.”

— Bob Dylan

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7. “Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.”

— Bob Dylan

8. “Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.”

— Bob Dylan

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9. “If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.”

— Bob Dylan

10. “Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.”

— Bob Dylan

Featured in: Education Quotes, Quotes About Songs

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

— Bob Dylan

12. “People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.”

— Bob Dylan

13. “Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.”

— Bob Dylan

14. “Money doesn't talk, it swears.”

— Bob Dylan

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15. “I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.”

— Bob Dylan

16. “The purpose of art is to stop time.”

— Bob Dylan

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17. “When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks.”

— Bob Dylan

18. “Don’t think twice, it’s alright.”

— Bob Dylan

Featured in: Quotes About Songs

19. “I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.”

— Bob Dylan

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20. “All I can do is be me, whoever that is.”

— Bob Dylan

Featured in: Personality Quotes, Identity Quotes, Purpose Quotes, Individuality Quotes

21. “I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.”

— Bob Dylan

Featured in: Freedom Quotes

22. “May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung.”

— Bob Dylan

Featured in: Blessing Quotes, Cheer Quotes, Quotes About Heart, Quotes About Songs

23. “May you stay Forever Young.”

— Bob Dylan

Featured in: Blessing Quotes, Quotes About Songs, Inspirational Birthday Quotes, Birthday Quotes

24. “There is nothing so stable as change.”

— Bob Dylan

25. “Everything passes, Everything changes, Just do what you think you should do.”

— Bob Dylan

26. “How many deaths will it take ’till we know that too many people have died?”

— Bob Dylan

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27. “We have never arrived. We are in a constant state of becoming.”

— Bob Dylan

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28. “I was born a long way from where I belong and I am on my way home.”

— Bob Dylan

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29. “Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.”

— Bob Dylan

Featured in: Past Quotes, Making Memories Quotes, Quotes About Memories

30. “Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am...”

— Bob Dylan

31. “People disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book. ”

— Bob Dylan

32. “For the loser now Will be later to win.”

— Bob Dylan

33. “God bless you all with peace, tranquility and good will.”

— Bob Dylan

34. “How many roads must a man walk down, Before you call him a man? How many seas must a white dove sail, Before she sleeps in the sand? Yes, and how many times must the cannon balls fly, Before they’re forever banned?”

— Bob Dylan

Featured in: Music Quotes, Artist Quotes, Quotes About the Sea

35. “Peace is the time it takes to reload your rifle.”

— Bob Dylan

36. “Time is an ocean, but it ends at the shore.”

— Bob Dylan

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37. “Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn’t work.”

— Bob Dylan

Featured in: Creativity Quotes, Imagination Quotes

38. “If you don’t believe there’s a price for this sweet paradise, just remind me to show you the scars.”

— Bob Dylan

39. “Doesn’t expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected?”

— Bob Dylan

40. “Chaos is a friend of mine.”

— Bob Dylan

41. “I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.”

— Bob Dylan

42. “May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong, may you stay forever young.”

— Bob Dylan

Featured in: Strong Quotes, Good Day Quotes, Inspirational Birthday Quotes

43. “To live outside the law, you must be honest.”

— Bob Dylan

44. “Music attracts the angels in the universe.”

— Bob Dylan

45. “Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.”

— Bob Dylan

46. “The line it is drawn The curse it is cast The slow one now Will later be fast As the present now Will later be past The new order is Rapidly fadin’. And the first one now Will later be last For the times they are a-changin’.”

— Bob Dylan

47. “Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be.”

— Bob Dylan

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48. “All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.”

— Bob Dylan

49. “Don’t follow leaders.”

— Bob Dylan

50. “An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he’s AT somewhere. You always have to realize that you’re constantly in a state of becoming. And, as long as you can stay in that realm you’ll sort of be alright.”

— Bob Dylan