Top 500 Bob Dylan Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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

152. “Most songs have bridges in them, to distract listeners from the main verses of a song so they don’t get bored. My songs don’t have a lot of bridges because lyric poetry never had them.”

— Bob Dylan

153. “If not for you, winter wouldn’t hold no spring, couldn’t hear a robin sing. I just wouldn’t have a clue, if not for you.”

— Bob Dylan

154. “I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes. You’d know what a drag it is to see you.”

— Bob Dylan

155. “One should never be where one does not belong.”

— Bob Dylan

156. “In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

159. “After a while you earn that privacy is something you can sell, but you can’t buy it back.”

— Bob Dylan

160. “Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.”

— Bob Dylan

161. “Yesterday is just a memory.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

164. “If God is on our side, he’ll stop the next war.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

174. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

177. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

182. “The land of milk and honey, they say it is the land of money.”

— Bob Dylan

183. “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

184. “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

185. “I make my stand and remain as I am, and bid farewell and not give a damn.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

187. “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

188. “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

189. “You say love is just a four letter word.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

191. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

193. “A poem is a naked person.”

— Bob Dylan

194. “I got this grave yard woman.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

196. “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

197. “You have to work out where your place is. And who you are. But we’re all spirit. That’s all we are, we’re just walking dressed up in a suit of skin, and we’re going to leave that behind.”

— Bob Dylan

198. “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

199. “Who am I helping, what am I breaking, what am I giving, what am I taking?”

— Bob Dylan

200. “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