Top 500 Bob Dylan Quotes (2023 Update)
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301. “Mama’s in the factory, she ain’t got no shoes. Daddy’s in the alley, he’s looking for food.”

— Bob Dylan

302. “In this age of fiberglass, I’m searching for a gem.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

304. “Disillusioned words like bullets bark as human gods aim for their mark.”

— Bob Dylan

305. “My favorite politician was Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, who reminded me of Tom Mix, and there wasn’t any way to explain that to anybody.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

307. “Well, it’s hard to stumble And land in some muddy lagoon When it’s nine below zero And three o’clock in the afternoon.”

— Bob Dylan

308. “An artist has got to be constantly in a state of becoming.”

— Bob Dylan

309. “You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more.”

— Bob Dylan

310. “A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life and certainly there’s no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

312. “If I had rubies, riches, and crowns, I’d buy the whole world and change things around.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

314. “The dirt of gossip blows into my face and the dust rumors cover me. But if the arrow is straight and the point is slick, it can pierce through dust no matter how thick.”

— Bob Dylan

315. “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

316. “In harmony with cosmic sea, true love needs no company. It can cure the soul, it can make it whole, if dogs run free.”

— Bob Dylan

317. “You don’t count the dead, when god’s on your side.”

— Bob Dylan

318. “I can’t see my reflection in the waters, I can’t speak the sounds that show no pain. I can’t hear the echo of my footsteps, or can’t remember the sound of my own name.”

— Bob Dylan

319. “Sing your praise of progress and the doom machine, the naked truth is still taboo whenever it can be seen.”

— Bob Dylan

320. “I just try to understand that tomorrow is another day.”

— Bob Dylan

321. “Adulterers in churches and pornography in the schools, you got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules. When you gonna wake up?”

— Bob Dylan

322. “Situations have ended sad, Relationships have all been bad.”

— Bob Dylan

323. “Your eyes are like two jewels in the sky.”

— Bob Dylan

324. “Trying to create a next world war, he found a promoter who nearly fell off the floor, he said I never engaged in this kind of thing before, but yes I think it can be very easily done.”

— Bob Dylan

325. “God is in heaven, and we all want what’s his. But power and greed and corruptible seed seem to be all that there is.”

— Bob Dylan

326. “I said, you know they refused Jesus, too. He said, you’re not him.”

— Bob Dylan

327. “The whole world’s a bottle, And life’s but a dram, When the bottle gets empty, It sure ain’t worth a damn.”

— Bob Dylan

328. “Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.”

— Bob Dylan

329. “I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.”

— Bob Dylan

330. “My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect.”

— Bob Dylan

331. “The longer you live, the better you get.”

— Bob Dylan

332. “Technology to wipe out truth is now available. Not everybody can afford it but it’s available. When the cost comes down, look out!”

— Bob Dylan

333. “You shouldn’t let other people get your kicks for you.”

— Bob Dylan

334. “As he weeps to wicked birds of prey, who pick up on his bread crumb sins, and there are no sins inside the Gates of Eden.”

— Bob Dylan

335. “Music can save people, but it can’t in the commercial way it’s being used. It’s just too much. It’s pollution.”

— Bob Dylan

336. “Peace will come With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall...”

— Bob Dylan

337. “Johnny’s in the basement Mixing up the medicine I’m on the pavement Thinking ’bout the government.”

— Bob Dylan

338. “My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited poems with jazz bands.”

— Bob Dylan

339. “I was burned out from exhaustion, buried in the hail, poisoned in the bushes, blown out on the trail; hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the corn, “Come in,” she said, “I’ll give ya shelter from the storm.””

— Bob Dylan

340. “And I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.”

— Bob Dylan

341. “You say you’re looking for someone who’ll pick you up each time you fall, to gather flowers constantly and to come each time you call, a lover your life and nothing more. But it ain’t me, babe.”

— Bob Dylan

342. “Satan will give you a little taste, then he’ll move in with rapid speed.”

— Bob Dylan

343. “In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.”

— Bob Dylan

344. “I love Country Music but what happened to it?”

— Bob Dylan

345. “It’s hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.”

— Bob Dylan

346. “Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.”

— Bob Dylan

347. “The worth of things can’t be measured by what they cost but by what the cost you to get it, that if anything costs you your faith or your family, then the price is too high, and that there are some things that will never wear out.”

— Bob Dylan

348. “There doesn’t seem to be any tomorrow. Every time I wake up, no matter in what position, it’s always been today.”

— Bob Dylan

349. “It will scramble your head and drag your brain about, sometimes you gotta do like Elvis did and shoot the damn thing out.”

— Bob Dylan

350. “Sold my guitar to the baker’s son for a few crumbs and a place to hide.”

— Bob Dylan