Top 500 Bob Dylan Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “I find C major to be the key of strength, but also the key of regret. E major is the key of confidence. A-flat major is the key of renunciation.”

— Bob Dylan

452. “I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.”

— Bob Dylan

453. “Lord knows I’ve paid my dues getting through, tangled up in blue.”

— Bob Dylan

454. “You can have your youth It’ll rot before your eyes.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

456. “Don’t know which one is worse, doing your own thing or just being cool.”

— Bob Dylan

457. “In the valley of the giants where the stars and stripes explode, the peaches they were sweet and the milk and honey flowed.”

— Bob Dylan

458. “I fought with my twin, the enemy within.”

— Bob Dylan

459. “Art can lead you to God. I think that’s the purpose of everything. If it’s not doing that, what’s it doing? It’s leading you the other way. It’s certainly not leading you nowhere.”

— Bob Dylan

460. “And for each unharmful gentle soul misplaced inside a jail...”

— 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. “New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.”

— Bob Dylan

463. “Cop comes down the street crazy as a loon, he throws us in jail for carrying harpoons.”

— Bob Dylan

464. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

468. “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

469. “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

470. “Gotta head full of ideas that are driving me insane...”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

472. “But I would not feel so all alone, everybody must get stoned.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

474. “In the home of the brave, Jefferson turning over in his grave.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

479. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

483. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

486. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

488. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

495. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

500. “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