Top 500 Bob Dylan Quotes (2023 Update)
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151. “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

152. “You’ll never be greater than yourself.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

154. “We all like motorcycles to some degree.”

— Bob Dylan

155. “The sun’s not yellow, its chicken!”

— Bob Dylan

156. “I believe in you, even though I be outnumbered.”

— Bob Dylan

157. “Nothing is better, nothing is best, take heed of this and get plenty of rest.”

— Bob Dylan

158. “Even I don’t know what I’m saying most of the time.”

— Bob Dylan

159. “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

160. “I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know some people are terrified of the bomb. But then some people are terrified to be seen carrying a modern screen magazine. Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.”

— Bob Dylan

161. “I am hanging in the balance of a perfect finished plan, like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand.”

— Bob Dylan

162. “Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I’ve got nothing, Ma, to live up to.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

164. “You’ll find out when you reach the top, you’re on the bottom.”

— Bob Dylan

165. “Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?”

— Bob Dylan

166. “If you can’t lend a hand, then get out of the way.”

— Bob Dylan

167. “You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns when they all did tricks for you.”

— Bob Dylan

168. “Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free, Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands.”

— Bob Dylan

169. “When you’re sad and when you’re lonely and you haven’t got a friend, just remember that death is not the end.”

— Bob Dylan

170. “You always got to be prepared but you never know for what.”

— Bob Dylan

171. “I kissed goodbye the howling beast on the borderline which separated you from me.”

— Bob Dylan

172. “Shedding off one more layer of skin, Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within.”

— Bob Dylan

173. “Look out your window, and I’ll be gone. You’re the reason I’m a-traveling on...”

— Bob Dylan

174. “There must be some kind of way out of here,? said the joker to the thief...”

— Bob Dylan

175. “Everything’s a business. Love, truth, beauty. Conversation is a business. Spirituality is not a business, so it’s going to go against the grain of people who are trying to exploit other people.”

— Bob Dylan

176. “We never thought we could ever get old.”

— Bob Dylan

177. “The truth was obscure, Too profound and too pure, To live it you had to explode.”

— Bob Dylan

178. “My senses have been stripped, my hands can’t feel to grip, my toes to numb to step, wait only for my boot heels to be wandering.”

— Bob Dylan

179. “They say everything can be replaced, Yet every distance is not near. So I remember every face Of every man who put me here. I see my light come shining From the west unto the east. Any day now, any day now, I shall be released.”

— Bob Dylan

180. “But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.”

— Bob Dylan

181. “I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.”

— Bob Dylan

182. “I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn’t allowed him to do or encouraged him to do.”

— Bob Dylan

183. “Is your money that good, will it buy you forgiveness?”

— Bob Dylan

184. “A poem is a naked person.”

— Bob Dylan

185. “I got this grave yard woman.”

— Bob Dylan

186. “I’m mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it’s the only place where I’m happy.”

— Bob Dylan

187. “Advertising signs: they con you into thinking you’re the one That can do what’s never been done That can win what’s never been won Meantime life outside goes on all around you.”

— Bob Dylan

188. “Good and bad, I define these terms, quite clear, no doubt, somehow.”

— Bob Dylan

189. “I hurt easy, I just don’t show it. You can hurt someone and not even know it.”

— Bob Dylan

190. “I feel like falling in love with the first woman I meet, putting her in a wheel-barrow and wheeling her down the street.”

— Bob Dylan

191. “I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.”

— Bob Dylan

192. “Now all the criminals in their suits and ties are free to drink martinis and watch the sunrise.”

— Bob Dylan

193. “Take me disappearing, through the smoke rings of my mind, down the foggy ruins of time...”

— Bob Dylan

194. “There’s a wall between you and what you want and you got to leap it.”

— Bob Dylan

195. “The highlight of my career? That’s easy, Elvis recording one of my songs.”

— Bob Dylan

196. “Her profession’s her religion, her sin is lifelessness.”

— Bob Dylan

197. “I met a young man who was wounded in love, I met another man who was wounded in hatred.”

— Bob Dylan

198. “The land created me. I’m wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I’m more at home in the vacant lots.”

— Bob Dylan

199. “Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.”

— Bob Dylan

200. “Loneliness Got a mind of its own The more people around The more you feel alone.”

— Bob Dylan