Bob Dylan Quotes

The people in my songs are all me.
Bob Dylan

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

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

Good, Sleep, Eat

You can't do something forever.
Bob Dylan

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

Road, Natural, Breathing

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.
Bob Dylan

Music, Fat, Folk

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

Titles, Colossal, Accolades

I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.
Bob Dylan

Happen, Moment, Next

I don't think I'm tangible to myself.
Bob Dylan

I never saw myself as a folk singer.
Bob Dylan

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.
Bob Dylan

Life, Work, Design

I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.
Bob Dylan

I'm mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it's the only place where I'm happy.
Bob Dylan

Happy, Place, Again

I'm not a playwright.
Bob Dylan

I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something.
Bob Dylan

Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.
Bob Dylan

It's not easy to define poetry.
Bob Dylan

Poetry, Easy, Define

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.
Bob Dylan

Music, Culture, Started

My range is limited.
Bob Dylan

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.
Bob Dylan

Person, Songs, Sound

Some formulas are too complex and I don't want anything to do with them.
Bob Dylan

Complex, Formulas

The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.
Bob Dylan

Home, Travel, Land

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.
Bob Dylan

What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.
Bob Dylan

Nothing, Rest, Owe

You call yourself what you want to call yourself.
Bob Dylan

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Nationality: American

Born: May 24, 1941

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