Bob Dylan Way Quotations

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

If you can't lend a hand, then get out of the way.

I was born a long way from where I belong and I am on my way home.

My favorite politician was Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, who reminded me of Tom Mix, and there wasn't any way to explain that to anybody.

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

I was lookin' high an' low for them Reds everywhere, I was lookin' in the sink an' underneath the chair. I looked way up my chimney hole, I even looked deep inside my toilet bowl.

Whenever anybody does something in a big way, it's always rejected at home and accepted someplace else.

I come from way north. We'd listen to radio shows all the time. I think I was the last generation, or pretty close to the last one, that grew up without TV.

You have to know that you're the best whether anybody else tells you that or not. And that you'll be around, in one way or another, longer than anybody else. Somewhere inside of you, you have to believe that.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

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

You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way.

When I was growing up - say in the fifties - the thirties to me didn't even exist. I couldn't even imagine them in any kind of way, so I don't expect anyone growing up now is gonna even understand what the sixties were all about, anymore than I could the thirties or twenties.

There must be some kind of way out of here,' said the joker to the thief...

Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way.

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

I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade, into my own parade, cast your dancing spell my way.

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

Gates appeal to me because of the negative space they allow. They can be closed but at the same time they allow the seasons and breezes to enter and flow. They can shut you out or shut you in. And in some ways there is no difference.

You must be vulnerable to be sensitive to reality. And to be vulnerable is just another way of saying that one has nothing more to lose. I don't have anything but darkness to lose.

I had ambitions to set out and find, like an odyssey or going home somewhere... set out to find... this home that I'd left a while back and couldn't remember exactly where it was, but I was on my way there. And encountering what I encountered on the way was how I envisioned it all. I didn't really have any ambition at all. I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be, and so, I'm on my way home, you know?

They like to take all this money from sin, build big universities to study in, sing Amazing Grace all the way to the Swiss banks.

Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles.