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Quotes By Bob Dylan

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Bob Dylan

May 24, 1941 - present

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

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.

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.

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

I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.

It rubs me the wrong way, a camera . . . It's a frightening thing . . . Cameras make ghosts out of people.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the '60s. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.

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.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.

Everything passes. Everything changes. Just do what you think you should do.

Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere.

If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

You can't be wise and in love at the same time.

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

In writing songs I've learned as much from Cézanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.