Bob Dylan is a singer and a cultural icon. He is popularly known for his free way of expressing himself through songs and literature. During the Civil Right Movement, he also wrote protest songs. He has received several awards and accolades, including the Grammy Awards, Nobel Prize and Golden Globe Award.
Here are some Bob Dylan Quotes that will inspire you on different aspects of life
Inspiring Bob Dylan Quotes
“You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.” – Bob Dylan
“Behind every beautiful thing, there’s some kind of pain.”― Bob Dylan
“I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.”― Bob Dylan
“I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.” – Bob Dylan
“May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung.”― Bob Dylan
“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.” ― Bob Dylan
“When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?”
― Bob Dylan
“When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it – don’t back down and don’t give up – then you’re going to mystify a lot of folks.”― Bob Dylan
“You’re gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you’re gonna have to serve somebody…”― Bob Dylan
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“I’m mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it’s the only place where I’m happy.” – Bob Dylan
“The future for me is already a thing of the past – You were my first love and you will be my last”― Bob Dylan
“You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” ― Bob Dylan
“If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there’s no success like failure”― Bob Dylan
“People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.”
– Bob Dylan Quotes
“Even if you don’t have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don’t have that you don’t want”― Bob Dylan
“You been down to the bottom with a bad man, babe But you’re back were you belong”― Bob Dylan
“Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.”― Bob Dylan
“Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.” – Bob Dylan
“I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.”― Bob Dylan
“Gonna change my way of thinking, make my self a different set of rules. Gonna put my good foot forward and stop being influenced by fools.” ― Bob Dylan
“You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free.”
– Bob Dylan Quotes
“If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.”― Bob Dylan
“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.” – Bob Dylan
“Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be.” – Bob Dylan
“A lot of people don’t like the road, but it’s as natural to me as breathing.” – Bob Dylan
“You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more” ― Bob Dylan
“Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it’s like they didn’t fade away at all.”― Bob Dylan
“Every pleasure’s got an edge of pain, pay your ticket and don’t complain”
― Bob Dylan
“I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes… Then you’d know what a drag it is to see you.”― 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
“People have different emotional levels. Especially when you’re young.” – Bob Dylan
“It’s a wicked life, but what the hell, the stars ain’t falling down.”― Bob Dylan
“Some times I think this whole world Is one big prison yeard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards.”― Bob Dylan
“It’s hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.” – Bob Dylan
“Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles.” ― Bob Dylan
