“It’s easier to be me than someone else. But just like most famous people, I just want to be left alone most of the time.”
― Bob Dylan
“I count the years and I shed no tears; I’m blinded to what might have been. Nature’s voice makes my heart rejoice; play me the wild song of the wind.”
― Bob Dylan
“Wagon Train was on. It seemed to be beaming in from some foreign country. I shut that off, too, and went into another room, a windowless one with a painted door–a dark cavern with a floor-to-ceiling library. I switched on the lamps. The place had an overpowering presence of literature and you couldn’t help but lose your passion for dumbness.”
― Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One
“A lot of people don’t like the road, but it’s as natural to me as breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it, and I either hate it or love it. I’m mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it’s the only place where I’m happy. It’s the only place you can be who you want to be. You can’t be who you want to be in daily life. I don’t care who you are, you’re going to be disappointed in daily life. But the cure-all for all that is to get on the stage, and that’s why performers do it. But in saying that, I don’t want to put on the mask of celebrity. I’d rather just do my work and see it as a trade.”
― Bob Dylan
“If you think the summer sun is too hot, just remember, at least you don’t have to shovel it.”
― Bob Dylan
“And I’ll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it
And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it
Then I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin’
But I’ll know my song well before I start singin”
― Bob Dylan
“My big fear was that my guitar would go out of tune.”
― Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One
“People need to be encouraged, not stepped on and put in a straitjacket!”
― Bob Dylan
“Well the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount,
But nothing really matters much it’s doom alone that counts.”
― Bob Dylan
“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.”
― Bob Dylan
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