Top 500 Bob Dylan Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “Everybody’s wearing a disguise, to hide what they’ve got left behind their eyes.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

304. “You say you’ve lost your faith But that’s not where it’s at You have no faith to lose and you know it.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

307. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

309. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

311. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

315. “Mama’s in the factory, she ain’t got no shoes. Daddy’s in the alley, he’s looking for food.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

317. “Like the lion tears the flesh off a man, so can a woman who passes herself off as a male.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

319. “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

320. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

323. “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

324. “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

325. “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

326. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

329. “It ain’t my cup of meat.”

— Bob Dylan

330. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

333. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

335. “It pays to know who your friends are but it also pays to know you ain’t got any friends.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

338. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

340. “I didn’t come out of a cereal box.”

— Bob Dylan

341. “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

342. “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

343. “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

344. “Now, each of us has his own special gift And you know this was meant to be true. And if you don’t underestimate me I won’t underestimate you.”

— Bob Dylan

345. “If I lived my life by what others were thinkin’, the heart inside me would’ve died.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

349. “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

350. “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