Bob Dylan
Quotations
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“I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.” -Bob Dylan
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“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.” -Bob Dylan
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“The land created me. I’m wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I’m more at home in the vacant lots.” -Bob Dylan
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“My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.” -Bob Dylan
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“What’s money? 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.” -Bob Dylan
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“I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.” -Bob Dylan
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“I don’t think I’ve ever been an agnostic. I’ve always thought there’s a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there’s a world to come.” -Bob Dylan
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“I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.” -Bob Dylan
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“Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there’s no fitting into it now.” -Bob Dylan
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“What’s money? 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.” -Bob Dylan
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“I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.” -Bob Dylan
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“You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent God, the all-great God, the Almighty God, the most powerful God, the giver of life God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about…
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“The land created me. I’m wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I’m more at home in the vacant lots.” -Bob Dylan
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“I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.” -Bob Dylan
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“You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent God, the all-great God, the Almighty God, the most powerful God, the giver of life God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about…
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“Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.” -Bob Dylan
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“I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.” -Bob Dylan
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“You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.” -Bob Dylan
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“All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.” -Bob Dylan
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“I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.” -Bob Dylan
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“I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.” -Bob Dylan
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“Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.” -Bob Dylan
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“I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.” -Bob Dylan
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“I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.” -Bob Dylan
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“I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.” -Bob Dylan
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