Bob Dylan

Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I’m not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I’ve never thought about that before! He said, When you’re not following me, you’re resisting me.

Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.

If I wasn’t Bob Dylan, I’d probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

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

I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.

I’m just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I’d be seeing Elvis soon.

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

Make a good use of the present.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

I always forgive others. The anger; sadness; frustration; pain, whatever feelings I felt, no matter the hurt; the tears, I always found understanding and reason to forgive them; to not hold onto it; to not resent them. But there is one, who I never seem to be able to give absolution, and that’s myself.

Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.

If you value a man’s regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper – and despise it.

Creativity is a consequence of action, not its motivation. Do what needs to be done and then ask whether it was possible.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

We all have our challenges, issues, things that we’re working through and insecurity is there because nobody is perfect no matter who you are. It’s that imperfection that makes you so dope.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

A physician’s physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric’s divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.