Top 500 Bob Dylan Quotes (2023 Update)
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401. “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

402. “God bless them pretty women, I wish they was mine, Their breath is as sweet, The dew on the vine.”

— Bob Dylan

403. “Michelangelo indeed could have carved out your features.”

— Bob Dylan

404. “The rifleman’s stalking the sick and the lame, preacherman seeks the same, who’ll get there first is uncertain.”

— Bob Dylan

405. “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

406. “I once loved a girl, her skin it was bronze With the innocence of a lamb, she was gentle like a fawn I courted her proudly but now she is gone Gone as the season she’s taken.”

— Bob Dylan

407. “Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition, but the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency.”

— Bob Dylan

408. “Jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule.”

— Bob Dylan

409. “When the jelly faced women all sneeze, hear the one with the mustache say I can’t find my knees.”

— Bob Dylan

410. “Stay free of petty jealousies, live by no man’s code, and hold your judgment for yourself, lest you wind up on this road.”

— Bob Dylan

411. “Watch waterfalls of pity roar, you feel to moan but unlike before, you discover that you’d just be one more person crying.”

— Bob Dylan

412. “He’s hell bent for destruction, he’s afraid and confused, and his brain has been mismanaged with great skill.”

— Bob Dylan

413. “Well the Lone Ranger and Tonto, they are riding down the line fixing everybody’s troubles, everybody except mine.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

415. “There’s beauty in the silver singing river There’s beauty in the sunrise in the sky But none of these and nothing else can match the beauty That I remember in my true love’s eyes.”

— Bob Dylan

416. “I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children.”

— Bob Dylan

417. “Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed, dignity never been photographed.”

— Bob Dylan

418. “I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.”

— Bob Dylan

419. “There are degrees of happiness. You go from one to the other and then back again. It’s hard to be completely happy when those around us are suffering and groaning from hunger.”

— Bob Dylan

420. “You’ll find God in the church of your choice, you’ll find Woody Guthrie in the Brooklyn State Hospital.”

— Bob Dylan

421. “Ain’t it hard when you discover that, he wasn’t really where it’s at, after he took from you everything he could steal. How does it feel?”

— Bob Dylan

422. “I didn’t know whether to duck or to run, so I ran.”

— Bob Dylan

423. “Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.”

— Bob Dylan

424. “Bent out of shape from society’s pliers, cares not to come up any higher, but rather get you down in the hole that he’s in.”

— Bob Dylan

425. “The only person you have to think about lying twice to is either yourself or to God. The press isn’t either of them. And I just figured they’re irrelevant.”

— Bob Dylan

426. “What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.”

— Bob Dylan

427. “The Harmonica is the world’s best-selling musical instrument. You’re welcome.”

— Bob Dylan

428. “It ain’t my cup of meat.”

— Bob Dylan

429. “I was born very far from where I’m supposed to be, and so I’m on my way home.”

— Bob Dylan

430. “I find C major to be the key of strength, but also the key of regret. E major is the key of confidence. A-flat major is the key of renunciation.”

— Bob Dylan

431. “Done so many evil things in the name of love, it’s a crying shame. I never did see no fire that could put out a flame.”

— Bob Dylan

432. “Don’t know which one is worse, doing your own thing or just being cool.”

— Bob Dylan

433. “Cop comes down the street crazy as a loon, he throws us in jail for carrying harpoons.”

— Bob Dylan

434. “The National Bank at profit sells road maps for the soul.”

— Bob Dylan

435. “And for each unharmful gentle soul misplaced inside a jail...”

— Bob Dylan

436. “Got no religion. Tried a bunch of different religions. The churches are divided. Can’t make up their minds and neither can I.”

— Bob Dylan

437. “Bullets can harm you and death can disarm you, but no, you will not be deceived. Stripped of all virtue as you crawl through the dirt, you can give but you cannot receive.”

— Bob Dylan

438. “Art can lead you to God. I think that’s the purpose of everything. If it’s not doing that, what’s it doing? It’s leading you the other way. It’s certainly not leading you nowhere.”

— Bob Dylan

439. “Lord knows I’ve paid my dues getting through, tangled up in blue.”

— Bob Dylan

440. “Anger and jealousy’s all that he sells us, he’s content when you’re under his thumb. Madmen oppose him, but your kindness throws him, to survive it you play deaf and dumb.”

— Bob Dylan

441. “In the valley of the giants where the stars and stripes explode, the peaches they were sweet and the milk and honey flowed.”

— Bob Dylan

442. “Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder.”

— Bob Dylan

443. “You can have your youth It’ll rot before your eyes.”

— Bob Dylan

444. “I fought with my twin, the enemy within.”

— Bob Dylan

445. “I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.”

— Bob Dylan

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

— Bob Dylan

447. “I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else’s.”

— Bob Dylan

448. “But I would not feel so all alone, everybody must get stoned.”

— Bob Dylan

449. “In the home of the brave, Jefferson turning over in his grave.”

— Bob Dylan

450. “New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.”

— Bob Dylan