Bob Dylan

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.

Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.

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.

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung.

Democracy don’t rule the world, you better get that in your head; this world is ruled by violence, but I guess that’s better left unsaid.

There is no script. Live your life. Soak it all in.

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

I think I always feel like if everything went to shit, I would just teach improv at a theatre.

What is the one thing that I could do to help you?

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

It’s terribly unfair that we should have to suffer like this.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.

Like an enemy I knew as intimately as any friend, I came to know the nagging, constant emptiness of the incongruent life. I ignored myself and lived for people, purposes, and goals that weren’t my own. I betrayed who I was and instead accepted a fictional substitute that was defined from the outside in.

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

I don’t want your punk ass man, I’m too tough