Top 500 Bob Dylan Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

305. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

307. “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

308. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

314. “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

315. “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

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

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

— Bob Dylan

319. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

321. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

323. “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

324. “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

325. “It ain’t my cup of meat.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

328. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

331. “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

332. “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

333. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

335. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

341. “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

342. “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

343. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

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

— Bob Dylan