Bob Dylan

Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.

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.

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

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

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

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

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!

Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress in merely finding a better way to do a useless thing.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it — teach yourself to be impatient.

No matter how carefully and assiduously and how deeply you bury shit, the American public will find it and buy it in large quantity, It’s true, absolutely true.

I’ve been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn’t require my presence.

What I greatly hope for these children everywhere, is a new attitude toward life–free from the gullibility which thinks we can get something for nothing; free from the greed which thinks any permanent good can come of overreaching others; and, above all, expectant of change, so that when life gives them a jolt they will be fully prepared to push on eagerly along new lines.

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

Three most deleterious things of modern life in their present order of importance are: tobacco, alcohol and intemperate eating. Both alcohol and tobacco are taboo in plants.

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

Some days, your perfume falls from your skin and settles in the staircase. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve stopped on the fourth step and felt all the ways I’ve fallen in love with you.

It’s just a matter of managing expectations. So for me, for example, you know, when your husband is President of the United States and you have children, something has got to give. I’ve made compromises in my life and my career, but I’ve also, in exchange, gained a wonderful platform to do some great work.

If you keep your head in the sand, you don’t know where the kick’s coming from.

The difference between you and the person you envy, is that you settle for less.