Curious about what the weather looks like: Just look out the
windows, take a walk outside.
Bob Dylan
Opening lines in his new job as a radio
DJ on US satellite service XM, May 4, 2006. |
I didn't go to classes. I just didn't feel like it.
Bob Dylan
On his college years, from No Direction
Home, 2005 documentary film by Martin Scorsese |
You could listen to his songs and learn how to live.
Bob Dylan
On Woodie Guthrie, from No Direction Home,
2005 documentary film by Martin Scorsese |
All the great performers had something in their eyes. It was
that 'I know something that you don't know.' And I wanted to
be that kind of performer.
Bob Dylan
From No Direction Home, 2005 documentary
film by Martin Scorsese |
It was like a flying saucer landed. That's what the sixties
were like. Everybody heard about it, but only a few really saw
it.
Bob Dylan
Quoted in James Mill's Almost Grown: the
Rise of Rock |
In writing songs I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have
from Woody Guthrie.
Bob Dylan
Quoted in Dylan: Behind the Shades by
Clinton Heylin |
People today are still living off the table scraps of the
sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and
the ideas.
Bob Dylan
The Guardian, February 13, 1992 |
Yeah, some of them are about ten minutes long, others five
or six.
Bob Dylan
Asked in 1965 interview whether he knew
what his songs were about |
I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word.
I'm a trapeze artist.
Bob Dylan
Quoted in J. Green, The Book of Rock Quotes |
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really
have in common is that they are all going to die.
Bob Dylan |