Top 500 Bob Dylan Quotes (2023 Update)
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451. “Gotta head full of ideas that are driving me insane...”

— Bob Dylan

452. “Some are masters of illusions, some are ministers of trade, all under the same delusion, all their beds unmade.”

— Bob Dylan

453. “The only sound that’s left after the ambulances go is Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row.”

— Bob Dylan

454. “Crimson flames tied through my ears rolling high and mighty traps, pounced with fire on flaming roads using ideas as my maps.”

— Bob Dylan

455. “You walk into the room like a camel and then put your eyes in your pockets and your nose on the ground.”

— Bob Dylan

456. “A cat’s meow and cow’s moo, I can recite them all.”

— Bob Dylan

457. “Now, each of us has his own special gift And you know this was meant to be true. And if you don’t underestimate me I won’t underestimate you.”

— Bob Dylan

458. “I have tried my hand at bribery, blackmail, and deceit. And I’ve served time for everything, cept beggin on the street.”

— Bob Dylan

459. “People tell me it’s a sin, to know and feel too much within.”

— Bob Dylan

460. “Seven shots ring out like the ocean’s pounding roar, there’s seven people dead on a South Dakota farm.”

— Bob Dylan

461. “Mothers tell your children not to do the things I have done, to spend my life in sin and misery in the House of the Rising Sun.”

— Bob Dylan

462. “Charity is suppose to cover up for a multitude of sins.”

— Bob Dylan

463. “With great lawyers you have discussed lepers and crooks, you’ve been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s books.”

— Bob Dylan

464. “Warlords of sorrow and queens of tomorrow will offer their heads for a prayer. You can’t find no salvation, you have no expectations anytime, anyplace, anywhere.”

— Bob Dylan

465. “She takes your voice and leaves you howling at the moon.”

— Bob Dylan

466. “Every day is the same thing out the door Feel further away then ever before Some things in life, it gets too late to learn Well, I’m lost somewhere I must have made a few bad turns.”

— Bob Dylan

467. “I march in the parade of liberty But as long as I love you I’m not free How long must I suffer such abuse Won’t you let me see you smile one time before I turn you loose?”

— Bob Dylan

468. “But now we got weapons Of the chemical dust If fire them we’re forced to Then fire them we must One push of the button And a shot the world wide And you never ask questions When God’s on your side.”

— Bob Dylan

469. “If love is a sin, then beauty is a crime.”

— Bob Dylan

470. “I always thought the best kind of sunglasses are the motorcycle helmets with the black plastic masks on them. That way, nobody can recognize the back of your head either.”

— Bob Dylan

471. “She had bullets in her eyes and they fired.”

— Bob Dylan

472. “You swore you’d never compromise With the mystery tramp, but now you realise He’s not selling any alibis As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes And say, do you want to make a deal How does it feel.”

— Bob Dylan

473. “Proud to steal her anything she sees, but you will wind up peeking through her key hole down upon your knees.”

— Bob Dylan

474. “There ought to be a law about you coming around.”

— Bob Dylan

475. “I’m the oldest son of a crazy man, I’m in a cowboy band.”

— Bob Dylan

476. “He gambled all his life, he’s got 27 children, yet he’s never had a wife.”

— Bob Dylan

477. “God got the power, man has got his vanity. Man gotta choose before God can set him free.”

— Bob Dylan

478. “I didn’t come out of a cereal box.”

— Bob Dylan

479. “He swift don’t win the race. It goes to the worthy, who can divide the word of truth.”

— Bob Dylan

480. “Sometimes I wonder what it’s gonna take to find dignity.”

— Bob Dylan

481. “I never wanted to be a prophet or a saviour. Elvis maybe.”

— Bob Dylan

482. “Don’t forget to support your public library.”

— Bob Dylan

483. “I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.”

— Bob Dylan

484. “Well, it’s always been my nature to take chances My right hand drawing back while my left hand advances.”

— Bob Dylan

485. “She can play my guitar note for note, she likes to stick her tongue down my throat.”

— Bob Dylan

486. “I’ll stand over your grave ’til I’m sure that you’re dead.”

— Bob Dylan

487. “You five and ten cent women with nothing in your heads, I got a real gal I’m loving and Lord I’ll love her ’til I’m dead.”

— Bob Dylan

488. “If you want to know how to please a woman, just talk to a neuroscience major from Columbia.”

— Bob Dylan

489. “That’s another way of writing a song, of course. Just talking to somebody that ain’t there. That’s the best way. That’s the truest way. Then it just becomes a question of how heroic your speech is. To me, it’s something to strive after.”

— Bob Dylan

490. “Creativity has a lot to do with the main idea. Inspiration is what comes when you are dealing with the idea. But inspiration won’t invite what’s not there to begin with.”

— Bob Dylan

491. “A lot of people don’t like the road, but it’s as natural to me as breathing.”

— Bob Dylan

492. “I heard the tongues of angels and the tongues of men and it all sounded no different to me.”

— Bob Dylan

493. “Don’t wanna marry nobody, if they’re already married.”

— Bob Dylan

494. “I’ve been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you’ve been up on the mountain, now you go down. You’re on your own, free. Check in later, but now you’re on your own.”

— Bob Dylan

495. “Too much of nothing can turn a man into a liar. It can cause one man to sleep on nails and another to eat fire.”

— Bob Dylan

496. “You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.”

— Bob Dylan

497. “If there’s an original thought out there, I could use one right now.”

— Bob Dylan

498. “On the cliffs of your wild cat charms I’m riding.”

— Bob Dylan

499. “Every day your memory grows dimmer – it doesn’t haunt me like it did before.”

— Bob Dylan

500. “Suddenly I found you and the spirit in me sings, Don’t have to look no further, You’re the soul of many things.”

— Bob Dylan