The 32 Best Quotes by Bob Dylan (The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016 Winner)

(selected from hundreds of Bob Dylan's inspirational quotes)

• A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
• 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.
• A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
• A song is anything that can walk by itself.
• All I can do is be me, whoever that is.
• All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
• Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.
• Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.
• Don't criticize what you can't understand.     
• Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.
• He not busy being born is busy dying.
• Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.
• I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.
• I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.
• I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
• I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change.
• I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.
• I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.
• I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.
• If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.
• I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.
• In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.
• I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.
• Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.
• Money doesn't talk, it swears.
• No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.
• People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
• Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.
• The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
• What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.
• What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.
• Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.