Top 500 Bob Dylan Quotes (2023 Update)
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351. “There are no truths outside the Gates of Eden.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

353. “When I think of mystery, I don’t think about myself. I think of the universe, like why does the moon rise when the sun falls? Caterpillars turn into butterflies? I really haven’t remained a recluse.”

— Bob Dylan

354. “I don’t need your organization, I’ve moved your mountains and I’ve marked you cards, but Eden is burning. You better get ready for elimination or else your hearts must have the courage of the changing of the guard.”

— Bob Dylan

355. “Idiot wind, blowing every time you open your mouth.”

— Bob Dylan

356. “I bargained for salvation and they gave me a lethal dose.”

— Bob Dylan

357. “Since my feet are now fast and point away from the past, I’ll bid farewell and be down the line.”

— Bob Dylan

358. “Privacy is something you can sell, but you can’t buy it back.”

— Bob Dylan

359. “Lay down the song you strum, And rest yourself ’neath the strength of strings No voice can hope to hum.”

— Bob Dylan

360. “You might be a rock and roll addict prancing on the stage. You might have drugs at your command, women in a cage.”

— Bob Dylan

361. “Beauty walks a razors edge, someday I’ll make it mine.”

— Bob Dylan

362. “If ever asked to look at yourself, don’t.”

— Bob Dylan

363. “Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

365. “A million faces at my feet but all I see are dark eyes.”

— Bob Dylan

366. “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

367. “We’re living in times where men commit crimes and crime don’t have a face.”

— Bob Dylan

368. “I don’t write the songs; I just write ’em down.”

— Bob Dylan

369. “The government’s not going to create jobs. It doesn’t have to. People have to create jobs...”

— Bob Dylan

370. “I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.”

— Bob Dylan

371. “I can’t see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That’s terrible.”

— Bob Dylan

372. “You’ve got to lose your passion for dumbness.”

— Bob Dylan

373. “There used to be a time when the idea of heroes was important. People grew up sharing those myths and legends and ideals. Now they grow up sharing McDonalds and Disneyland.”

— Bob Dylan

374. “I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.”

— Bob Dylan

375. “Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there’s no fitting into it now.”

— Bob Dylan

376. “Too much information about nothing.”

— Bob Dylan

377. “I’ve been out in front of a dozen dead oceans.”

— Bob Dylan

378. “The cavalries charged and the Indians died, oh the country was young with God on its side.”

— Bob Dylan

379. “We don’t see the people that vice destroys. We just see the glamour of it – everywhere we look, from billboard signs to movies, to newspapers, to magazines. We see the destruction of human life.”

— Bob Dylan

380. “Every writer at the New Yorker is smarter than me.”

— Bob Dylan

381. “Some formulas are too complex and I don’t want anything to do with them.”

— Bob Dylan

382. “Just a reminder, if you tell anyone about what happened with Jonah last night, I’ll destroy all of my writing and never play music again.”

— Bob Dylan

383. “I don’t usually purge myself by writing anything about any type of quote, so-called, relationships.”

— Bob Dylan

384. “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

385. “It’s sundown on the Union and what’s made in the USA, sure was a good idea, until greed got in the way.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

387. “Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people, they’re drinking, thinking that they got it made. Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things, but you’d better lift your diamond ring, you’d better pawn it, babe.”

— Bob Dylan

388. “Passion is a young man’s game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise. I mean, you’re around awhile, you leave certain things to the young. Don’t try to act like you’re young. You could really hurt yourself.”

— Bob Dylan

389. “Heard ten thousand whispering and nobody listening. Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughing. Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter.”

— Bob Dylan

390. “Fearing not that I’d become my enemy In the instant that I preach.”

— Bob Dylan

391. “Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.”

— Bob Dylan

392. “You use to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat, who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

394. “I’m ready to go anywhere, I’m ready for to fade, into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way.”

— Bob Dylan

395. “Well the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount, But nothing really matters much it’s doom alone that counts.”

— Bob Dylan

396. “Madonna, she still has not showed, we see this empty cage now corrode, where her cape of the stage once had flowed, the fiddler he now steps to the road, on the back of the fish truck that loads, while my conscience explodes.”

— Bob Dylan

397. “Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.”

— Bob Dylan

398. “I’m a liberal to a degree, I want everybody to be free. But if you think that I’ll let Barry Goldwater move in next door.”

— Bob Dylan

399. “One who sings with his tongue on fire, gargles in the rat race choir.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan