Bob Dylan Quotes

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way.

I don’t think I’ve ever been an agnostic. I’ve always thought there’s a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there’s a world to come.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

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

I can’t act!

A lot of people can’t stand touring but to me it’s like breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.

I stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed… so drastically, I couldn’t believe it myself.

I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.

Steal a little and they throw you in jail Steal a lot and they make you king.

It’s not easy to define poetry.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it’s like they didn’t fade away at all.

The purpose of art is to stop time.