"Play it fuckin' loud!"
— Bob Dylan

"I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me."
— Bob Dylan

"I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours"
— Bob Dylan (Lyrics:1962-2001)

"And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking."
— Bob Dylan

"Don't criticize what you can't understand."
— Bob Dylan

"The future for me is already a thing of the past -
You were my first love and you will be my last"
— Bob Dylan (Bob Dylan: Love And Theft)

"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 dont need a weather man to know which way the wind blows"
— Bob Dylan

"Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be."
— Bob Dylan

"All I can be is me- whoever that is. "
— Bob Dylan

"He not busy being born is busy dying."
— Bob Dylan

"May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung."
— Bob Dylan

"If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them."
— Bob Dylan

"Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean."
— 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

"behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain."
— Bob Dylan

"Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind,
Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves,
The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach,
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow.

Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free,
Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands,
With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves,
Let me forget about today until tomorrow."
— Bob Dylan

"People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent."
— 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

"Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles."
— Bob Dylan

"To live outside the law you must be honest."
— Bob Dylan

"The truth was obscure,
Too profound and too pure,
To live it you had to explode"
— Bob Dylan

"I didn't come out of a cereal box. "
— Bob Dylan

"I'm 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."
— Bob Dylan

"Gotta head full of ideas that are driving me insane..."
— Bob Dylan

"You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more"
— Bob Dylan (Writings and Drawings)

"How many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky?
Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.
"
— Bob Dylan

"Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all."
— Bob Dylan (Chronicles: Volume One)

"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,"
— Bob Dylan

"There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate, so let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late. "
— Bob Dylan

"How does it feel, how does it feel to be without a home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone."
— Bob Dylan

"I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now.

"From the back pages""
— Bob Dylan

"It frieghtens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be..."
— Bob Dylan

"Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past
I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast"
— 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

"i've forgotten more than you'll ever know"
— Bob Dylan

"People disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book. "
— Bob Dylan

"A poem is a naked person....Some people say that I am a poet."
— 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

"If ever asked to look at yourself, don't."
— Bob Dylan

"DESTINY is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have in your own mind of what you're about WILL COME TRUE. It's a kind of a thing you kind of have to keep to your own self, because it's a fragile feeling, and you put it out there, then someone will kill it. It's best to keep that all inside."
— Bob Dylan (The Bob Dylan Scrapbook, 1956-1966)

"The sun's not yellow, its chicken!"
— Bob Dylan

"You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist."
— Bob Dylan

"“The Harmonica is the world’s best-selling musical instrument. You’re welcome.”"
— Bob Dylan (Theme Time Radio Hour)

"It's like my whole life never happened,
When I see you, it's as if I never had a thought.
I know this dream, it might be crazy,
But it's the only one I've got."
— Bob Dylan

"...in this ocean of hours I'm all the time drinking..."
— Bob Dylan

"Can you please crawl out your window? Use your arms and your legs, it won't ruin you"
— Bob Dylan (Lyrics: 1962-2001)

"... songs, to me, were more important than just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of reality. Some different republic, some liberated republic... whatever the case, it wasn't that I was anti-popular culture or anything and I had no ambition to stir things up. I just thought of mainstream culture as lame as hell and a big trick. It was like the unbroken sea of frost that lay outside the window and you had to have awkward footgear to walk with."
— Bob Dylan (Chronicles: Volume One)

"Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?"
— Bob Dylan (Lyrics: 1962-2001)

"The longer you live, the better you get."
— Bob Dylan