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Bob Dylan Main Page Detailed Biography & Facts Discography Filmography Quotes Trivia Bob Dylan Images, Pictures, Photos: Bob Dylan Picture Gallery Next: Aretha Franklin Previous: The Doors Music Legends: Tupac The Grateful Dead Jimi Hendrix Led Zeppelin Bob Marley Nirvana Pink Floyd The Rolling Stones	Quotations by Bob Dylan You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever. Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be. What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it. Well, I don't know, but I've been told the streets in heaven are lined with gold. I ask you how things could get much worse if the Russians happen to get up there first; Wowee! pretty scary! The radio makes hideous sounds. May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young. 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. People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent. 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. Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything. It rubs me the wrong way, a camera... It's a frightening thing...Cameras make ghosts out of people. In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge. I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that. I'm speaking for all of us. I'm the spokesman for a generation. I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours. You've got a lot of nerve, To say you are my friend, When I was down, you just stood there grinning I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet. I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged. 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 consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet. wish that for just one time / you could stand inside my shoes / and just for that one moment / I could be you. / Yes, I wish that for just one time / You could stand inside my shoes / You'd know what a drag it is / to see you. He not busy being born is busy dying. Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid. There's beauty in the silver singing river, There's beauty in the sunrise in the sky, But none of these and nothing else can match the beauty, That I remember in my true love's eyes. But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked. Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere. Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges. Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be. Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools got nothing, Ma, to live up to. All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die. All I can do is be me, whoever that is. Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola! I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay. 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 person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do. A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom. A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding. A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet. People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent. Chaos is a friend of mine. I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me. All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie. Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools got nothing, Ma, to live up to. Blame it on a simple twist of fate. Don't follow leaders, watch your parkin' meters. I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be. I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed. 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. I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds. I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom. I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon. I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, "Okay, you've been up on the mountain, now you go down. You're on your own, free. Check in later, but now you're on your own." If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself. In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall. If the point is sharp, and the arrow is swift, it can pierce through the dust no matter how thick. The times they are a-changing. Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I'm not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I've never thought about that before! He said, When you're not following me, you're resisting me. Money doesn't talk, it swears. People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas. Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them. There is nothing so stable as change. Hey! Mr. Tamborine Man, play a song for me. I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to. Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past. When you cease to exist, then who will you blame? You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows. Don't follow leaders watch the parkin' meters.