"Whenever anybody does something in a big way, it's always rejected at home and accepted someplace else."
Read quote
7 likes
Quote collection
Bob Dylan quotes (page 18 of 44)
872 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."
Read quote
7 likes
"We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it"
Read quote
7 likes
"Bob Dylan wasn't a big star early on; it was the release of his Greatest Hits album in 1967, and the mainstream success of the stoner anthem "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" ("Everybody must get stoned!"), that really put him on the mainstream map."
Read quote
7 likes
"I forgot more than you'll ever know."
Read quote
7 likes
"The "joker" here ["All Along the Watchtower" ] is the older [Bob] Dylan himself, whining about exploitation, and the thief's rejoinder re-contextualizes the earlier critique into the religious frames that would become more prominent as time went on."
Read quote
7 likes
"You got men who can't hold peace and women who can't control their tongues. The rich seduce the poor, and the old seduce the young."
Read quote
7 likes
"Everything's a business. Love, truth, beauty. Conversation is a business. Spirituality is not a business, so it's going to go against the grain of people who are trying to exploit other people."
Read quote
7 likes
"Most songs have bridges in them, to distract listeners from the main verses of a song so they don't get bored. My songs don't have a lot of bridges because lyric poetry never had them."
Read quote
7 likes
"Loneliness Got a mind of its own The more people around The more you feel alone"
Read quote
7 likes
"I am hanging in the balance of a perfect finished plan, like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand."
Read quote
7 likes
"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."
Read quote
7 likes
"My songs are personal music, they're not communal. I wouldn't want people singing along with me. It would sound funny. I'm not playing campfire meetings. I don't remember anyone singing along with Elvis, Carl Perkins or Little Richard."
Read quote
7 likes
"The good Samaritan, he's getting dressed, he's getting ready for the show. He's going to the carnival tonight on Desolation Row."
Read quote
7 likes
"Well, it's hard to stumble And land in some muddy lagoon When it's nine below zero And three o'clock in the afternoon."
Read quote
7 likes
"Adulterers in churches and pornography in the schools, you got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules. When you gonna wake up?"
Read quote
7 likes
"Technology to wipe out truth is now available. Not everybody can afford it but it's available. When the cost comes down, look out!"
Read quote
6 likes
"To live outside the law, you must be honest."
Read quote
6 likes
"I never wanted to be a prophet or a saviour. Elvis maybe"
Read quote
6 likes
"It pays to know who your friends are but it also pays to know you ain't got any friends."
Read quote
6 likes