With your silhouette when the sunlight dims
Into your eyes where the moonlight swims,
And your match-book songs and your gypsy hymns,
Who among them would try to impress you?

-Bob Dylan, "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” (1966)


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BOB DYLAN
Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.
BOB DYLAN
I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.
BOB DYLAN
What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.
BOB DYLAN
You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows
BOB DYLAN
You've got a lot of nerve, To say you are my friend, When I was down, you just stood there grinning
BOB DYLAN
You're basically putting it out through a corporation regardless . . . How you get it out is really ...
BOB DYLAN
He who's not busy being born is busy dying
BOB DYLAN
There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.
BOB DYLAN
You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way.
BOB DYLAN
Steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and they make you king.
BOB DYLAN
Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts
BOB DYLAN
I'm mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it's the only place where I'm happy.
BOB DYLAN
All I'd ever done was sing songs that were dead straight and expressed powerful new realities. I had...
BOB DYLAN
I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon.
BOB DYLAN
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind
BOB DYLAN
Ah - but I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now
BOB DYLAN
The city is one very long poem. A lazy rhythm looms in the dreamy air and the atmosphere pulsates wi...
BOB DYLAN
Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land, And don't criticize What you can't understand
BOB DYLAN
Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn).
BOB DYLAN
Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
BOB DYLAN
Somebody had to be Bob Dylan. I guess I was best equipped to do the job.
BOB DYLAN
Blonde on Blonde.
BOB DYLAN
You're gonna have to serve somebody.
BOB DYLAN
I'm not a playwright.
BOB DYLAN
All I can be is me- whoever that is.
BOB DYLAN
[Neil Young's lyrics from his 1988 hit] This Notes For You ... The Times They Are A Changing.
BOB DYLAN
I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be, and so I'm on my way home.
BOB DYLAN
May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung.
BOB DYLAN
I wanna say hello to all the ex-hippies tonight. I've never been a hippie myself but I'm an honorary...
BOB DYLAN
Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?
BOB DYLAN
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed aroun...
BOB DYLAN
When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose.
BOB DYLAN
I don't think I'm tangible to myself.
BOB DYLAN
There's beauty in the silver singing river, There's beauty in the sunrise in the sky, But none of th...
BOB DYLAN
I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all t...
BOB DYLAN
reality has too many heads
BOB DYLAN
Dostoevsky, too, had lived a dismal and hard life. The czar sent him to a prison camp in Siberia in ...
BOB DYLAN
If you're looking to get silly, you better go back to from where you came. because the cops don't ne...
BOB DYLAN
they say every man needs protection, they say every man must fall.
yet I swear I see my reflect...
BOB DYLAN
I had no time for romance. I turned away from the window, from the wintry sun, crossed through the r...
BOB DYLAN
But, like Shakespeare, I too am often occupied with the pursuit of my creative endeavors and dealing...
BOB DYLAN
Once upon a time You dressed so fine
BOB DYLAN
I never took much, I never asked for your crutch, Now don't ask for mine.
BOB DYLAN
In another life, I could have been you," she'd say.
"Yeah, but then I wouldn't have been the s...
BOB DYLAN
She's got everything she needs; she's an artist, she don't look back.
BOB DYLAN