Bob Dylan Music Quotations

He not busy being born is busy dying.

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.

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.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose.

We're constantly being bombarded by insulting and humiliating music, which people are making for you the way they make those Wonder Bread products. Just as food can be bad for your system, music can be bad for your spiritual and emotional feelings. It might taste good or clever, but in the long run, it's not going to do anything for you.

...you could listen to Woody Guthrie songs and actually learn how to live ...

..When I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody ... hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail

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

And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

... When it came time to hire a guitar player ... I didn't even have to think about it ... Mike Bloomfield was the best guitar player I'd ever heard...

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

I wouldn't even think of playing music if I was born in these times. I wouldn't even listen to the radio.

You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.