Bob Dylan People Quotations

Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

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

A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.

A lot of people don't have much food on their table. But they got a lot of forks 'n knives. And they got to cut somethin'.

I've never been able to understand the seriousness of it all, the seriousness of pride. People talk, act, live as if they're never going to die. And what do they leave behind? Nothing. Nothing but a mask.

The government’s not going to create jobs. It doesn’t have to. People have to create jobs...

People are crazy and times are strange ... I used to care but things have changed

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young.

i been meek, and hard like an oak, i seen pretty people disappear like smoke. friends will arrive, friends will disappear. if you want me, honey baby, i'll be here.

Draft beer, not people.

How many deaths will it take 'till we know that too many people have died?

My songs are personal music, they're not communal. I wouldn't want people singing along with me. It would sound funny. I'm not playing campfire meetings. I don't remember anyone singing along with Elvis, Carl Perkins or Little Richard.

People call you this or that. But I can't respond because then it seems like I'm defensive, you know, what does it matter, really?

You get older. You start having hopes for other people rather than yourself.

Pain sure does bring out the best in people, doesn't it?

You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you.

It's not important what other people call you. If you yourself know you're a fake, that's tougher to live with.

Every singer has three or four or five techniques, and you can force them together in different combinations. Some of the techniques you discard along the way, and pick up others. But you do need them. It's just like anything. You have to know certain things about what you're doing that other people don't know. Singing has to do with techniques and how many you use at the same time. One alone doesn't work. There's no point to going over three. But you might interchange them whenever you feel like it. It's a bit like alchemy.

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young. Back then I guess most of my influences could be thought of as eccentric. Mass media had no overwhelming reach so I was drawn to the traveling performers passing through.

It's always disappointing when people decide for one reason or another that they don't like your work anymore, but you can't try to please people, because then you're just going to be doing - you'll never live it down, y'know it'll always be dogging you around - you might be being a fake about the whole thing.

There's a lot of false prophets around and that's the trouble. People say they think they know what's right and other people get people to follow them because they have a certain type of charisma, and there's always people willing to take over. People want a leader. And there will be more and more of them.

Everything's a business. Love, truth, beauty. Conversation is a business. Spirituality is not a business, so it's going to go against the grain of people who are trying to exploit other people.

People talk about Frank [Sinatra] all the time - and they should talk about Frank - but he had the greatest arrangers. They worked for him in a different kind of way than they worked for other people. They gave him arrangements that are just sublime on every level. And he, of course, could match that because he had this ability to get inside of the song in a sort of a conversational way. Frank sang to you, not at you, like so many pop singers today. Even singers of standards.

People's lives are filled with vice and the trappings of it. Ambition, greed and selfishness all have to do with vice. Sooner or later, you have to see through it or you don't survive.

We don't see the people that vice destroys. We just see the glamour of it - everywhere we look, from billboard signs to movies, to newspapers, to magazines. We see the destruction of human life.

I never did use earphones until into the Eighties or Nineties. I don't like to use earphones. I've never heard anybody sing with earphones effectively. They just give you a false sense of security. A lot of us don't need earphones. I don't think Springsteen or Mick do. But other people more or less have given in. But they ought not to. They don't need to. Especially if they have a good band.

People think that singing and playing is easy. It's not. It's easy to strum along, but if you actually want to really play, where it's important, that's a hard thing and not too many people are good at it.

A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness.

Once you think you know the song, then you have go and see how other people have done it.

Dealing with my own life takes priority over other people dealing with my life.

People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.

Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than those who are most content.

You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.

In songs, you have to tell people about something they didn't see and weren't there for, and you have to do it as if you were.

Half of the people can be part right all of the time, Some of the people can be all right part of the time. I think Abraham Lincoln said that. 'I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours,' I said that.

People think they know me from my songs. But my repertoire of songs is so wide-ranging that you'd have to be a madman to figure out the characteristics of the person who wrote all those songs.

I have always believed that fame is a curse. I never envied one of the famous people I've known.

Heard ten thousand whispering and nobody listening. Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughing. Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter.

People do whatever they want to do, y'know.

Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's pollution.

Whatever people see - TV in my mind forms people's opinions.

People disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book.

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

It's very tiring having other people tell you how much they dig you if you yourself don't dig you.

Fame it's like... When you look through a window, say you pass a little pub, or an inn. You look through the window and you see people talking and carrying on. You,can watch outside the window and see them all being very real with each other. But when you walk into the room, it's over. I don't pay any attention to it.

How many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free...

All the people we used to know, they're an illusion to me now.

The people in my songs are all me.

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

A lot of people from the press want to talk to me, but they never do.

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know some people are terrified of the bomb. But then some people are terrified to be seen carrying a modern screen magazine. Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.

So now I'm going back again I got to get her somehow All the people we used to know They're an illusion to me now Some are mathematicians Some are carpenter's wives Don't know how it all got started I don't what they're doing with their lives But me I'm still on the road Heading for another joint We always did feel the same We just saw it from a different point of view Tangled up in Blue.

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

Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that's going on right now in a big way.

Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.

People don't live or die, people just float.

All these people that I used to know, they're an illusion to me now. Some are mathematicians, some are carpenters' wives.

You know what they say about bein' nice to the right people on the way up Sooner or later you gonna meet them comin' down

Seven shots ring out like the ocean's pounding roar, there's seven people dead on a South Dakota farm.

People tell me it's a sin, to know and feel too much within.

Loneliness Got a mind of its own The more people around The more you feel alone

There's been rumors of war and wars that have been The meaning of life has been lost in the wind And some people thinkin' that the end is close by 'Stead of learnin' to live they are learnin' to die

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.

A lot of people don't like the road, but it's as natural to me as breathing.

Some people have no hope, some people want to be like you, you know? Best to be yourself

It was relatively simple. Bob put himself in my hands. He just turned up - just his words on paper - no instruments, no musicians, no preconceptions. He just turned up on the doorstep and I built the studio. It's what I call a kitchen studio, so we played in the kitchen. I knew it would suit Bob because I knew Bob didn't have a lot of time for the studio. He didn't want people standing around scratching their heads, banging pianos or whatever. I sat down next to him, put a guitar in his hand and off we went.