Top 500 Bob Dylan Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “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

352. “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

353. “The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

355. “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

356. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

358. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

361. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

364. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

366. “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

367. “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

368. “There are no truths outside the Gates of Eden.”

— Bob Dylan

369. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

377. “Suddenly I found you and the spirit in me sings, Don’t have to look no further, You’re the soul of many things.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

380. “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

381. “Act the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you’d like to act.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

383. “On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

388. “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

389. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

391. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

393. “Too much information about nothing.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

395. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

397. “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

398. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

400. “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