Popular Quotes Through Time

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

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

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

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

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