Top 500 Bob Dylan Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “The cards are no good that you’re are holding unless you’re from another world.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

305. “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

306. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

308. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

312. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

314. “Now the wintertime is coming The windows are filled with frost I went to tell everybody But I could not get across Well, I wanna be your lover, baby I don’t wanna be your boss Don’t say I never warned you When your train gets lost.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

316. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

318. “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

319. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

323. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

328. “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

329. “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

330. “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

331. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

333. “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

334. “It ain’t my cup of meat.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

339. “I’ll stand over your grave ’til I’m sure that you’re dead.”

— Bob Dylan

340. “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

341. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

347. “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

348. “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

349. “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

350. “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