Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I’m in awe of McCartney. He’s about the only one that I am in awe of. He can do it all. And he’s never let up... He’s just so damn effortless.
Bob Dylan
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Bob Dylan
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: May 24
Actor
Autobiographer
Composer
Designer
Disc Jockey
Film Actor
Film Director
Guitarist
Lyricist
Musician
Painter
Poet
Radio Personality
Duluth
USA
Bob Landy
Robert Milkwood Thomas
Tedham Porterhouse
Robert Zimmerman
Blind Boy Grunt
Robert Allen Zimmerman
Jack Frost
Elston Gunn
Lucky Wilbury
Boo Wilbury
Sergei Petrov
Robert Dylan
Dylan
Mccartney
Effortless
Awe
Damn
Never
More quotes by Bob Dylan
A brilliant 1989 album, Oh Mercy some career retrospectives and two albums of American folk songs, with just Bob Dylan and his guitar and harmonica. All that culminated in the Grammy-winning comeback album, Time Out of Mind (1997). Once again, just as Dylan seemed to be out of it, he was back at the top of his game.
Bob Dylan
I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans.
Bob Dylan
Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon -but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx -the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?
Bob Dylan
Once I can focus in on something, I just play it in my mind until an idea comes from out of nowhere, and it's usually the key to the whole song. It's the idea that matters. It's like electricity was around long before Edison harnessed it.
Bob Dylan
Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?
Bob Dylan
Johnny's in the basement Mixing up the medicine I'm on the pavement Thinking 'bout the government.
Bob Dylan
Up north, you could find these radio stations with no name on the dials that played pre-rock 'n' roll things - country blues. We would hear Slim Harpo or Lightnin' Slim and gospel groups, the Dixie Hummingbirds, the Five Blind Boys of Alabama. I was so far north, I didn't even know where Alabama was.
Bob Dylan
It may look like I'm moving but I'm standing still.
Bob Dylan
I play these [folk acoustic] concerts and I ask myself, 'Would you come see me tonight?' - and I'd have to answer truthfully, 'No, I wouldn't come. I'd rather be doin' something else, really I would. That something else is rock... The words are pictures, and the rock's gonna help me flesh out the colors of the pictures. (1965)
Bob Dylan
Life has its ups and downs, and time has to be your partner. Really, time is your soul mate.
Bob Dylan
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.
Bob Dylan
Everybody's wearing a disguise, to hide what they've got left behind their eyes.
Bob Dylan
They like to take all this money from sin, build big universities to study in, sing Amazing Grace all the way to the Swiss banks.
Bob Dylan
Mama's in the factory, she ain't got no shoes. Daddy's in the alley, he's looking for food.
Bob Dylan
Shadows are falling and I've been here all day/It's too hot to sleep, time is running away/Feel like my soul has turned into steel/I've still got the scars that the sun didn't heal.
Bob Dylan
If there's an original thought out there, I could use one right now.
Bob Dylan
The Rolling Stones are truly the greatest rock and roll band in the world and always will be. The last too. Everything that came after them, metal, rap, punk, new wave, pop-rock, you name it... you can trace it all back to the Rolling Stones. They were the first and the last and no one's ever done it better.
Bob Dylan
I'm inconsistent, even to myself.
Bob Dylan
It's like my whole life never happened, When I see you, it's as if I never had a thought. I know this dream, it might be crazy, But it's the only one I've got.
Bob Dylan
Don't get up gentlemen. I'm only passing through!
Bob Dylan
