Bob Dylan Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Bob Dylan:

You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

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 theres some kind of change.

Bob Dylan

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

There is nothing so stable as change.

Bob Dylan

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

Bob Dylan

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Bob Dylan

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.

Bob Dylan

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Bob Dylan

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

Bob Dylan

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

Bob Dylan

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

Bob Dylan

I'm not a playwright.

Bob Dylan

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

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

Bob Dylan

Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.

Bob Dylan

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

Bob Dylan

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young.

Bob Dylan

What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.

Bob Dylan

A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.

Bob Dylan

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

Bob Dylan

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

Bob Dylan

I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.

Bob Dylan

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

Bob Dylan

I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.

Bob Dylan

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Bob Dylan

Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.

Bob Dylan

You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

Bob Dylan

I don't think I'm tangible to myself.

Bob Dylan

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

Bob Dylan

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.

Bob Dylan

You call yourself what you want to call yourself.

Bob Dylan

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

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.

Bob Dylan

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

Bob Dylan

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

Bob Dylan

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

Bob Dylan