Top 500 Bob Dylan Quotes (2023 Update)
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251. “I like Fidel Castro and his beard.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

258. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

261. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

264. “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

265. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

269. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

271. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

275. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

278. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

281. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

285. “The enemy is subtle, how be it we are so deceived, when truth’s in our hearts and we still don’t believe.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

288. “I don’t really have a retirement plan.”

— Bob Dylan

289. “When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud, I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form.”

— Bob Dylan

290. “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

291. “It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be...”

— Bob Dylan

292. “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

293. “Jesus, that ear. He should donate it to The Smithsonian. Brian Wilson, he made all his records with four tracks, but you couldn’t make his records if you had a hundred tracks today.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

295. “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

296. “The drunken politician leaps upon the street where mothers weep, and the saviors who are fast asleep, they wait for you.”

— Bob Dylan

297. “The motorcycle black madonna Two wheeled gypsy queen.”

— Bob Dylan

298. “You’re a cow Give me some milk Or else go home.”

— Bob Dylan

299. “Yes, and only if my own true love was waiting If I could hear his heart softly pounding Yes, and only if he was lying by me Would I lie in my bed once again.”

— Bob Dylan

300. “Obscenity, who really cares. Propaganda, all is phony.”

— Bob Dylan