Top 500 Bob Dylan Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Inside the museum infinity goes up on trial. Voices echo, ‘This is what salvation must be like after a while.’ But Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles.”

— Bob Dylan

102. “Mama, put my guns in the ground, I can’t shoot them anymore. That long black cloud is coming down.”

— Bob Dylan

103. “Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks.”

— Bob Dylan

104. “There’s eyes behind the mirrors in empty places.”

— Bob Dylan

105. “Everything in New Orleans is a good idea.”

— Bob Dylan

106. “I like spiritual songs. They struck me as truthful and serious. They brought me down to earth and they lifted me up all in the same moment.”

— Bob Dylan

107. “I ain’t saying you treated me unkind you could’ve done better, but I don’t mind. You just kinda wasted my precious time. But don’t think twice, it’s alright.”

— Bob Dylan

108. “You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future.”

— Bob Dylan

109. “Well, I try my best to be just like I am, But everybody wants you to be just like them, They sing while you slave and I just get bored.”

— Bob Dylan

110. “Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it’s like they didn’t fade away at all.”

— Bob Dylan

111. “I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.”

— Bob Dylan

112. “Take me on a trip upon your magic swirling ship.”

— Bob Dylan

113. “Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws.”

— Bob Dylan

114. “Don’t Ask Me Nothing About Nothing, I Just Might Tell You the Truth.”

— Bob Dylan

115. “I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken, I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children, And it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, It’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall.”

— Bob Dylan

116. “And it’s a hard, It’s a hard, It’s a hard, It’s a hard, It’s a hard rain gonna fall.”

— Bob Dylan

117. “You’re gonna have to serve somebody.”

— Bob Dylan

118. “It is the first line that gives the inspiration and then it’s like riding a bull. Either you just stick with it, or you don’t.”

— Bob Dylan

119. “Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than those who are most content.”

— Bob Dylan

120. “Steal a little, and they put you in jail. Steal a lot, and they make you king.”

— Bob Dylan

121. “Your mind is a your temple, keep it beautiful and free. Don’t let an egg get laid in it by something you can’t see.”

— Bob Dylan

122. “Maybe someday you will understand, that something for nothing is everybody’s plan.”

— Bob Dylan

123. “Folk music is a bunch of fat people.”

— Bob Dylan

124. “Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.”

— Bob Dylan

125. “It’s mighty funny. The end of time has just begun.”

— Bob Dylan

126. “Black is the Color and none is the number.”

— Bob Dylan

127. “I don’t want no pickle. Just want to ride my motorcycle.”

— Bob Dylan

128. “And there’s no one there to dry your tears. I could hold you for a million years. To make you feel my love.”

— Bob Dylan

129. “If you don’t underestimate me, I won’t underestimate you.”

— Bob Dylan

130. “Let the dead bury the dead, your time will come.”

— Bob Dylan

131. “I kinda live where I find myself.”

— Bob Dylan

132. “The times are a-changing and if we don’t we will sink like a stone.”

— Bob Dylan

133. “All the people we used to know, they’re an illusion to me now.”

— Bob Dylan

134. “There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. But you and I, we’ve been through that, and this is not our fate, so let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.”

— Bob Dylan

135. “You’re gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you’re gonna have to serve somebody...”

— Bob Dylan

136. “Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.”

— Bob Dylan

137. “I was never a topical songwriter.”

— Bob Dylan

138. “Love is all there is, it makes the world go ’round Love and only love, it can’t be denied No matter what you think about it You just won’t be able to do without it Take a tip from one who’s tried.”

— Bob Dylan

139. “Life is sad, life is a bust, all you can do is do what you must.”

— Bob Dylan

140. “When you think that you lost everything you find out you can always lose a little more.”

— Bob Dylan

141. “Life has its ups and downs, and time has to be your partner. Really, time is your soul mate.”

— Bob Dylan

142. “Sometimes the silence can be like thunder.”

— Bob Dylan

143. “I am a restless soul hungry perhaps wretched.”

— Bob Dylan

144. “Call me any name you like I will never deny it.”

— Bob Dylan

145. “Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb.”

— Bob Dylan

146. “I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul...”

— Bob Dylan

147. “If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there’s no success like failure.”

— Bob Dylan

148. “Art is a never-ending dance of illusions.”

— Bob Dylan

149. “Wasn’t making any great connection Wasn’t falling for any intricate scheme Nothing that would pass inspection Just thinking of a series of dreams.”

— Bob Dylan

150. “Half of the people can be part right all of the time, Some of the people can be all right part of the time. I think Abraham Lincoln said that. ‘I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours,’ I said that.”

— Bob Dylan