Zitat des Tages von Bob Dylan:
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
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 theres some kind of change.
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.
There is nothing so stable as change.
A song is anything that can walk by itself.
To live outside the law, you must be honest.
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 God, God is arbitrary.
Money doesn't talk, it swears.
Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.
I never saw myself as a folk singer.
I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.
I'm not a playwright.
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.
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.
A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young.
What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.
A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am 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 felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.
I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.
But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.
I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.
He not busy being born is busy dying.
Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.
You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.
I don't think I'm tangible to myself.
Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.
A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.
You call yourself what you want to call yourself.
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.
Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.
At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.
I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.
When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?