Top 500 Bob Dylan Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Good and bad, I define these terms, quite clear, no doubt, somehow.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

205. “I’m ready to go anywhere, I’m ready for to fade, into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

207. “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

208. “Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through.”

— Bob Dylan

209. “I set my monkey on the log, and ordered him to do the Dog. He wagged his tail and shook his head, and he went and did the Cat instead.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

212. “Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition, but the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

214. “Morality has nothing in common with politics.”

— Bob Dylan

215. “The warrior who’s strength is not to fight.”

— Bob Dylan

216. “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

217. “Why wait any longer for the one you love When he’s standing in front of you.”

— Bob Dylan

218. “I ain’t looking to compete with you, beat, or cheat, or mistreat you, simplify you, classify you, deny, defy, or crucify you. All I really want to do is, baby, be friends with you.”

— Bob Dylan

219. “I think of rock ‘n’ roll as a combination of country blues and swing band music, not Chicago blues, and modern pop.”

— Bob Dylan

220. “The battle outside raging will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.”

— Bob Dylan

221. “Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth. None of them along the line know what any of it is worth.”

— Bob Dylan

222. “The woman I love she got a prize fighter nose, cauliflower ears and a run in her hose.”

— Bob Dylan

223. “So happy just to be alive, Underneath the sky of blue, On this new morning, new morning, On this new morning with you.”

— Bob Dylan

224. “Just because you like my stuff doesn’t mean I owe you anything.”

— Bob Dylan

225. “Without freedom of speech, I might be in the swamp.”

— Bob Dylan

226. “So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away, to the wild unknown country where I could not go wrong.”

— Bob Dylan

227. “They’re selling postcards of the hanging.”

— Bob Dylan

228. “Forget the dead you’ve left, they will not follow you.”

— Bob Dylan

229. “Some times I think this whole world Is one big prison yeard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards.”

— Bob Dylan

230. “I’m one too many mornings, and a thousand miles behind.”

— Bob Dylan

231. “Reality has always had too many heads.”

— Bob Dylan

232. “The good Samaritan, he’s getting dressed, he’s getting ready for the show. He’s going to the carnival tonight on Desolation Row.”

— Bob Dylan

233. “I believe that instinct is what makes a genius a genius.”

— Bob Dylan

234. “I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.”

— Bob Dylan

235. “Upon four-legged forest clouds the cowboy angel rides.”

— Bob Dylan

236. “She never stumbles, she’s got no place to fall. She’s nobody’s child, the law can’t touch her at all.”

— Bob Dylan

237. “There are a lot of places I like, but I like New Orleans better.”

— Bob Dylan

238. “I’ve never been able to understand the seriousness of it all, the seriousness of pride. People talk, act, live as if they’re never going to die. And what do they leave behind? Nothing. Nothing but a mask.”

— Bob Dylan

239. “Shakespeare, he’s in the alley with his pointed shoes and his bells, speaking to some French girl who says she knows me well.”

— Bob Dylan

240. “How many a year has passed and gone and many gamble has been lost and won, and many a road taken by a friend and each one I’ve never seen again.”

— Bob Dylan

241. “I’ve never written a political song. Songs can’t save the world. I’ve gone through all that.”

— Bob Dylan

242. “For them that think death’s honesty won’t fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.”

— Bob Dylan

243. “Gates appeal to me because of the negative space they allow. They can be closed but at the same time they allow the seasons and breezes to enter and flow. They can shut you out or shut you in. And in some ways there is no difference.”

— Bob Dylan

244. “I’m in love with my second cousin.”

— Bob Dylan

245. “It may look like I’m moving but I’m standing still.”

— Bob Dylan

246. “Little red wagon, little red bike, I ain’t no monkey but I know what I like.”

— Bob Dylan

247. “A song is like a dream, and you try to make it come true. They’re like strange countries that you have to enter.”

— Bob Dylan

248. “How many years can some people exist before they’re allowed to be free...”

— Bob Dylan

249. “You must be vulnerable to be sensitive to reality. And to be vulnerable is just another way of saying that one has nothing more to lose. I don’t have anything but darkness to lose.”

— Bob Dylan

250. “Remember when you’re out there trying to heal the sick, that you must always first forgive them.”

— Bob Dylan