Top 500 Bob Dylan Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “Oh, time is short and the days are sweet and passion rules the arrow that flies.”

— Bob Dylan

252. “I’m determined to stand whether God will deliver me or not.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

254. “I practice a faith that’s been long abandoned Ain’t no altars on this long and lonesome road.”

— Bob Dylan

255. “My love is like some raven at my window with a broken wing.”

— Bob Dylan

256. “Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast.”

— Bob Dylan

257. “You breathed on me and made my life a richer one to live, when I was deep in poverty you taught me how to give. Dried the tears up from my dreams and pulled me from my hole, quenched my thirst and satisfied the burning in my soul.”

— Bob Dylan

258. “Good intentions can be evil, both hands are full of grease. You know, sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.”

— Bob Dylan

259. “If I had wings, no one would ask me: should I fly?”

— Bob Dylan

260. “Romance never does go out of fashion. It’s radical. But it’s out of step with the current media culture.”

— Bob Dylan

261. “Come Senators, Congressman, please heed the call, don’t stand in the doorway, don’t block the hall.”

— Bob Dylan

262. “To preach of peace and brotherhood, oh what might be the cost? A man he did it long ago, and they hung him on a cross.”

— Bob Dylan

263. “Let me feel your love one more time before I abandon it.”

— Bob Dylan

264. “I like Fidel Castro and his beard.”

— Bob Dylan

265. “I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.”

— Bob Dylan

266. “Silvio, I gotta go, find out something only dead men know.”

— Bob Dylan

267. “The pump don’t work cause the vandals took the handle.”

— Bob Dylan

268. “Get jailed, jump bail, join the Army if you fail.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

270. “You will find God in the church of your choice.”

— Bob Dylan

271. “Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth. You’re an idiot babe, it’s a wonder that you still know how to breathe.”

— Bob Dylan

272. “Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can’t sing, I call a poem.”

— Bob Dylan

273. “The real power is in the hands of small groups of people and I don’t think they have titles.”

— Bob Dylan

274. “When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?”

— Bob Dylan

275. “The truth that I am seeking is in your missing file.”

— Bob Dylan

276. “It’s not important what other people call you. If you yourself know you’re a fake, that’s tougher to live with.”

— Bob Dylan

277. “It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry.”

— Bob Dylan

278. “He hands you a nickel, he hands you a dime. He asks you with a grin, if you’re having a good time.”

— Bob Dylan

279. “Passion is a young man’s game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise.”

— Bob Dylan

280. “Dead man, dead man When will you arise? Cobwebs in your mind Dust upon your eyes.”

— Bob Dylan

281. “You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist, and ‘load every rift’ of your subject with ore.”

— Bob Dylan

282. “What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.”

— Bob Dylan

283. “What politics I ever learned, I learned in the streets, because it was part of the environment.”

— Bob Dylan

284. “Once I went into songwriting, I figured I had to – I couldn’t be a hellfire rock ‘n’ roller. But I could write hellfire lyrics.”

— Bob Dylan

285. “My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.”

— Bob Dylan

286. “It’s not easy to define poetry.”

— Bob Dylan

287. “Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.”

— Bob Dylan

288. “The man in the coon skin cap in the pig pen wants eleven dollar bills, you’ve only got ten.”

— Bob Dylan

289. “On the cliffs of your wild cat charms I’m riding.”

— Bob Dylan

290. “Well, I don’t know, but I’ve been told the streets in heaven are lined with gold. I ask you how things could get much worse if the Russians happen to get up there first; Wowee! pretty scary!”

— Bob Dylan

291. “How can the life of such a man be in the palm of some fools hand?”

— Bob Dylan

292. “He did ten years in Attica, reading Nietzsche and Wilhelm Reich.”

— Bob Dylan

293. “What drives me to you, drives me insane.”

— Bob Dylan

294. “One was Texas medicine, the other was just railroad gin, and like a fool I mixed them.”

— Bob Dylan

295. “The executioner’s face is always well hidden.”

— Bob Dylan

296. “How many times have you heard someone say If I had his money I’d do things my way Hmm, but little they know Hmm, it’s so hard to find One rich man in ten with a satisfied mind.”

— Bob Dylan

297. “Everybody’s wearing a disguise, to hide what they’ve got left behind their eyes.”

— Bob Dylan

298. “Everything from toy guns that spark To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark It’s easy to see without looking too far That not much is really sacred.”

— Bob Dylan

299. “Well the book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers.”

— Bob Dylan

300. “You were born with a snake in both of your fists while a hurricane was blowing.”

— Bob Dylan