Top 500 Bob Dylan Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “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

252. “Broken bottles, broken plates, broken switches, broken gates. Broken dishes, broken parts, streets are filled with broken hearts.”

— Bob Dylan

253. “There are those who worship loneliness, I’m not one of them In this age of fiberglass I’m searching for a gem The crystal ball up on the wall hasn’t shown me nothing yet I’ve paid the price of solitude, but at last I’m out of debt.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

255. “Oh, time is short and the days are sweet and passion rules the arrow that flies.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

257. “Uncle fought in Vietnam and then he fought a war all by himself.”

— Bob Dylan

258. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

261. “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

262. “A song is anything that can walk by itself.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

267. “I could stay with you forever and never realize the time.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

269. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

275. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

280. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

282. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

284. “Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I’m not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I’ve never thought about that before! He said, When you’re not following me, you’re resisting me.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

286. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

289. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

291. “Life is sad, life is a bust, all you can do is do what you must. You do what you must do, and you do it well.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

295. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

299. “The cards are no good that you’re are holding unless you’re from another world.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan