Bob Dylan

Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!

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

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

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

She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.

Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.

My entire life can be described in one sentence. It didn’t go as planned and that’s OK.

Insight emerges out of silence.

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

[on Diana’s Death] Disbelief, refused to accept it.

At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you’re living your life doesn’t matter. What matters is whether you’re comfortable with it.

I can visualize the time when almost every family will have a small plane in their back yard.

Life’s three best teachers: heartbreak, empty pocket, failures.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

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

I’ve always thought that each person invented himself… for whatever reason, through whatever circumstance, through whatever he is gone through… that we are each a figment of our own imagination… And some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.

Come to me, wild and untamed. Bring the oceans on your lips, the mountains on your spine; I want to explore all the places you have ever called home. Let me pluck each petal from the gardens you’ve grown, overcrowded seedlings pushing up through your bones. Come to me dipped in the stars, come to me wearing all your scars. I want to show you just how beautiful you are.

When women come up to me like, ‘I am a freaking senator,’ or, ‘I’m a doctor,’ it’s like, ‘Damn, y’all like me? I look up to y’all!’

A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.