Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman; May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, and visual artist who has been a major figure in popular culture for more than fifty years. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when songs such as “Blowin’ in the Wind” (1963) and “The Times They Are a-Changin'” (1964) became anthems for the civil rights movement and anti-war movement. Bob Dylan quotes about love, death, change, money, friendship, and family will motivate you in life.
Best Bob Dylan Quotes
- “Play it fuckin’ loud!” ― Bob Dylan
- “Behind every beautiful thing, there’s some kind of pain.” ― Bob Dylan
- “Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.” ― Bob Dylan
- “All I can be is me- whoever that is. ” ― Bob Dylan
- “If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.” ― Bob Dylan
- “Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.” ― Bob Dylan
- “Gotta head full of ideas that are driving me insane…” ― Bob Dylan
- “No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.” ― Bob Dylan
- “You can never be wise and be in love at the same time.” ― Bob Dylan
- “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” ― Bob Dylan
- “May God bless and keep you always,
May your wishes all come true,
May you always do for others
And let others do for you.
May you build a ladder to the stars
And climb on every rung,
May you stay forever young,”
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“People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.” ― Bob Dylan
- “When you’ve got nothing, you’ve got nothing to loose.” ― Bob Dylan
- “When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it – don’t back down and don’t give up – then you’re going to mystify a lot of folks.” ― Bob Dylan
- “I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.” ― Bob Dylan
- “If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there’s no success like failure” ― Bob Dylan
- “The only thing I knew how to do was to keep on keeping on” ― Bob Dylan
- “It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be…” ― Bob Dylan
- “I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn’t allowed him to do or encouraged him to do.” ― Bob Dylan
- “Gonna change my way of thinking, make my self a different set of rules. Gonna put my good foot forward and stop being influenced by fools.” ― Bob Dylan
- “Even if you don’t have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don’t have that you don’t want (Bob Dylan’s dad)” ― Bob Dylan
- “You’re gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you’re gonna have to serve somebody…” ― Bob Dylan
- “The longer you live, the better you get.” ― Bob Dylan
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“Every pleasure’s got an edge of pain, pay your ticket and don’t complain.” ― Bob Dylan
- “I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.” ― Bob Dylan
- “When You Cease To Exist, Then Who Will You Blame?” ― Bob Dylan
- “Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.” ― Bob Dylan
- “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, Bob Dylan quotes about family
- “Act the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you’d like to act.” ― Bob Dylan
- “Money doesn’t talk, it swears.” ― Bob Dylan
- “Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that’s exactly the way we want it to be.” ― Bob Dylan
- “You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free” ― Bob Dylan
- “Some times I think this whole world
Is one big prison yard
Some of us are prisoners
The rest of us are guards” ― - “There’s only one day at a time here, then it’s tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.” ― Bob Dylan
- “Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.” ― Bob Dylan
- “Everything passes,
Everything changes,
Just do what you think you should do.” ― - “People are crazy and times are strange … I used to care but things have changed.” ― Bob Dylan
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“There is nothing so stable as change.” ― Bob Dylan
- “I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.” ― Bob Dylan
- “If you don’t believe there’s a price for this sweet paradise, just remind me to show you the scars.” ― Bob Dylan
- “Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb.” ― Bob Dylan
- “I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.” ― Bob Dylan
- “She knows there’s no success like failure, and that failure’s no success at all.” ― Bob Dylan
- “You can always come back, but you can’t come back all the way.” ― Bob Dylan
- “If you’re not busy being born, you’re busy dying.” ― Bob Dylan
- “It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry” ― Bob Dylan
- “You can hurt someone and not even know it.” ― Bob Dylan
- “People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.” ― Bob Dylan
- “Passion rules the arrow that flies.” ― Bob Dylan
- “Definition destroys … there’s nothing definite in this world” ― Bob Dylan
- “We are so scared of losing everything that doesn’t mean anything.” ― Bob Dylan
- “We’re going all the way ’til the wheels fall off and burn.” ― Bob Dylan
- “Reality has too many heads.” ― Bob Dylan
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“It ain’t where you’re from, its where you’re going to.” ― Bob Dylan
- “Privacy is something you can sell, but you can’t buy it back.” ― Bob Dylan
- “The rocks on the sand will proudly stand The hour that the ship comes in.” ― Bob Dylan
- “If love is a sin, then beauty is a crime.” ― Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan quotes about love
- “I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.” ― Bob Dylan
- “A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between, he does what he wants to do.” ― Bob Dylan
- “You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future.” ― Bob Dylan