(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.

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