Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

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

I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.

There is nothing so stable as change.

I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.

I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

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

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

The radio makes hideous sounds.

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

Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

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

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

I'm speaking for all of us. I'm the spokesman for a generation.

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.

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.

I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.

Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

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

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.

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

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

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

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.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

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.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

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.

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.