Bob Dylan

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

Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon – but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx –the world went around, it didn’t stop for a second. It’s sad but true. John Kennedy, right?

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past — whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

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

Being on tour is like being in limbo. It’s like going from nowhere to nowhere.

There is nothing so stable as change.

If gold rust what shall the iron do?

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.

There is no man living who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.

The genius of the American people is Self-Reliance.

Don’t hurry, don’t worry. You’re only here for a short visit. So be sure and smell the flowers.

You don’t get anything clean without getting something else dirty.

Most of the sickness in the world is caused by eating too much.

You can’t put feathers on a dog and call it a chicken!

What a guy, what a fool am I, to think my breaking heart could kid the moon.

Parents need to dial in and know what their kids are doing.

The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

If He Tom Sawyer had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.