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

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

357. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

359. “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

360. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

363. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

365. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

368. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

370. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

372. “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

373. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

381. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

383. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

391. “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

392. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

394. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

397. “Too much information about nothing.”

— Bob Dylan

398. “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

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

— Bob Dylan

400. “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