Bob Dylan

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

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

Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that’s going on right now in a big way.

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

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

All this is only for the mice and myself to admire!

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.

If emotional pain or problems have cropped up in your life, you must insist on getting closure. Closure means you don’t carry the problem or the pain. You address the issue, then you slam shut the book and put it away.

I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Sometimes you have to make the right decision, and sometimes you have to make the decision right.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.

I think I am actually humble. I think I’m much more humble than you would understand.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

Everybody should have the opportunity to do and be everything they can be.

One side of unhealthy relating is if you are always pursuing or always retreating.

Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.