Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.
—Bob Dylan
Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!
—Bob Dylan
Topics: Tourism, Travel
She knows there’s no success like failure, and that failure’s no success at all.
—Bob Dylan
Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools got nothing, Ma, to live up to.
—Bob Dylan
To live outside the law, you must be honest.
—Bob Dylan
Topics: Honesty
Money doesn’t talk, it swears.
—Bob Dylan
Topics: Money
Just because you like my stuff doesn’t mean I owe you anything.
—Bob Dylan
Topics: Gratitude
But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.
—Bob Dylan
Topics: Presidency
If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.
—Bob Dylan
Topics: Memory, Living
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
—Bob Dylan
Topics: Equality
Well, I don’t know, but I’ve been told the streets in heaven are lined with gold. I ask you how things could get much worse if the Russians happen to get up there first; Wowee! pretty scary!
—Bob Dylan
Topics: Heaven
I’ve been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, “Okay, you’ve been up on the mountain, now you go down. You’re on your own, free. Check in later, but now you’re on your own.”
—Bob Dylan
Topics: World
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around—the music and the ideas.
—Bob Dylan
Topics: Twentieth Century
In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
—Bob Dylan
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with their freedom.
—Bob Dylan
Topics: Heroism, Heroes, Heroes/Heroism
Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon—but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx—the world went around, it didn’t stop for a second. It’s sad but true. John Kennedy, right?
—Bob Dylan
Topics: Greatness & Great Things, Greatness
You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past—whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.
—Bob Dylan
Topics: Experience
Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.
—Bob Dylan
I’m a firm believer in the longer you live, the better you get.
—Bob Dylan
I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.
—Bob Dylan
Topics: America
She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.
—Bob Dylan
Topics: Poetry, Poets
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, and then repent.
—Bob Dylan
Topics: Regret
This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.
—Bob Dylan
For them that think death’s honesty won’t fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.
—Bob Dylan
Topics: Immortality
I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there’s some kind of change.
—Bob Dylan
Topics: Thinking, Future
Blame it on a simple twist of fate.
—Bob Dylan
Topics: Blame
Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
—Bob Dylan
It pays to know who your friends are but it also pays to know you ain’t got any friends.
—Bob Dylan
Topics: Friendship
Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.
—Bob Dylan
Topics: Maturity
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.
—Bob Dylan
Topics: Nature
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- Bette Midler American Actress, Singer
- George Harrison English Singer
- John Lennon British Singer
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