(selected from hundreds of Bob Dylan's inspirational quotes)
- A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
- 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.
- A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
- A song is anything that can walk by itself.
- All I can do is be me, whoever that is.
- All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
- Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.
- Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.
- Don't criticize what you can't understand.
- Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.
- He not busy being born is busy dying.
- Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.
- I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.
- I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.
- I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
- 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 there's some kind of change.
- I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.
- I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.
- I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.
- If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.
- 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.
- I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.
- Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.
- Money doesn't talk, it swears.
- No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.
- People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
- Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.
- The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
- What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.
- What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.
- Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.
