Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman 1941)

• All I can do is be me, whoever that is

• Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

• Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

• He not busy being born is busy dying.

• I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

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

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

• 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 theres some kind of change.

• I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.

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

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

• If the point is sharp, and the arrow is swift, it can pierce through the dust no matter how thick.

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

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

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

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

• People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

• 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.

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

• What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

• 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.

• Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

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

• When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

• Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.

• You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows.

• A day above ground is a good day.