All Quotes

"Insanity is crashing up against my soul."

"Feel like falling in love with the first woman I meet... Putting her in a wheel barrow and wheeling her down the street."

"People are crazy and times are strange I'm locked in tight, I'm out of range, I used to care, but things have changed."

"I been walkin forty miles of bad road. If the Bible is right the world will explode. I've been trying to get as far away from myself as I can"

"My clothes are wet, tight on my skin. Not as tight as the corner that I've painted myself in."

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

"I'm walking through the leaves falling from the trees, Feelin' like a stranger nobody sees."

"So many things that we never will undo I know you're sorry, I'm sorry too."

"I'm drownin' in the poison, got not future got no past."

"But my heart is not weary; it's light and it's free I've got nothing but affection for those who've sailed with me."

"Everybody movin', if they ain't already there. Everyboy got to move somewhere."

"Things should start to get interesting right about now."

"Politician's got on his jogging shoes, he must be running for office, got no time to lose"

"The future for me is already a thing of the past."

"I'm gonna baptize you in fire so you can sin no more."

"Funny how the things you have the hardest time parting with are the things you need the least."

"I'm gonna spare the defeated—I'm gonna speak to the crowd I'm gonna spare the defeated, boys, I'm going to speak to the crowd I am goin' to teach peace to the conquered I'm gonna tame the proud"

"Down over the window Comes the dazzling sunlit rays Through the back alleys, through the blinds Another one of them endless days"

"My old man he's like some feudal lord, got more lives than a cat."

"Jump into the wagon, love, throw your panties overboard."

"I can write you poems, make a strong man lose his mind."

"As great as you are, man, you’ll never be greater than yourself."

"Don’t reach out for me, she said. Can’t you see I’m drowning too?"

"Last night across the alley there was a pounding on the wall It must have been Don Pascuale making a two a.m. booty call"

"Gonna forget about myself for a while, gonna go out and see what others need."

"Feel like my soul is beginning to expand. Look into my heart and you will sort of understand."

"The world of research has gone berserk. Too much paperwork."

"Some people never work a day in their lives, don't know what work even means."

"If I catch my opponents ever sleepin', I'll just slaughter 'em where they lie."

"I'm listening to Billy Joe Shaver And I'm reading James Joyce Some people they tell me I've got the blood of the land in my voice"

"The door has closed for evermore, If indeed there ever was a door."

"Just give to me my gravestone With it clearly carved upon: "I'm a long time a-comin' An' I'll be a long time gone""

"She left one too many a boy behind He committed suicide"

"It's soon after midnight, and I got a date with a fairy queen"

"Another politician pumpin' out the piss."

"He bent in the middle like a twisted pin"

"Long before the First Crusade, way back before England or America was made."

"Mr. Freud with his dreams, Mr. Marx with his ax."

"Who cleared the path for Presley to sing Who carved out the path for Martin Luther King"

"I lit the torch, I looked to the east, and I crossed the Rubicon."

"I’m so deep in love that I can hardly see."

"Well, it might not be the thing to do, but I’m sticking with you through and through."

"Bob Dylan's enormous influence on mid-'60s rock not only led directly to the birth of folk rock but also inspired the psychedelic rockers who followed."

"He might rarely pick up a six-string these days, but back in the day, Dylan started a folk revolution with nothing but a beat-up old acoustic and a suitcase full of songs. Dylan made it look so easy that a legion of earnest young strummers picked up the guitar. They discovered the truth when they started trying to play like him, though. Elaborate fingerpicking, open tunings, ear-catching runs and an impeccable sense of rhythm were the foundation that the Dylan legend was built on. He sourced his skills from legends of folk and blues, and combined them into something bitingly original. Hands down the best singer-songwriter ever to do it."

"It took Bob Dylan to break the ice between the [country and rock music] camps. [...] While it would be a stretch to call Blonde on Blonde a country-rock record, the fact that Dylan, arguably the most important person in rock at the time, cut an album in the home of country music soon brought an influx of other musicians to Nashville. As Charlie McCoy, the multi-instrumentalist who starred on Blonde told Nashville Scene in 2011, “That's when the floodgates opened.""

"The Nobel Prize for Literature is yet another step towards immortality for Bob Dylan. The rebellious, reclusive, unpredictable artist/composer is exactly where the Nobel Prize for Literature needs to be. His gift with words is unsurpassable. Out of my repertoire spanning 60 years, no songs have been more moving and worthy in their depth, darkness, fury, mystery, beauty and humour than Bob's. None has been more of a pleasure to sing. None will come again."

"To me, [giving the Nobel Prize to Bob Dylan] is like pinning a medal on Mount Everest for being the highest mountain."

"I relied on Bob Dylan as a seer who literally channeled the mood of the revolution. His John Wesley Harding album, named for a famous outlaw, had thrilled me the year before, especially "All Along the Watchtower," which seemed to me a coda for revolution. Some of the women in our group and many in the new women's movement had turned against Dylan and other artists for their misogyny, and I couldn't deny its presence in many lyrics."

"In the mid-'60s one of my cousins gave me a record by Bob Dylan and it was a mind-blowing experience. I loved the beat of it, the folk concerns, the pulse of the people in Dylan's music."

"Dylan is to me the perfect symbol of the anti-artist in our society. He is against everything—the last resort of someone who doesn't really want to change the world. ... I think his poetry is punk. It's derivative and terribly old hat. ... Dylan songs accept the world as it is."