I’ve never been able to understand the seriousness of it all, the seriousness of pride. People talk, act, live as if they’re never going to die. And what do they leave behind? Nothing. Nothing but a mask.
BOB DYLANI’ve never been able to understand the seriousness of it all, the seriousness of pride. People talk, act, live as if they’re never going to die. And what do they leave behind? Nothing. Nothing but a mask.
BOB DYLANThere are things I could say. But I don’t.
BOB DYLANI define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
BOB DYLANThey say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.
BOB DYLANThere’s beauty in the silver singing river There’s beauty in the sunrise in the sky But none of these and nothing else can match the beauty That I remember in my true love’s eyes
BOB DYLANThere is nothing so stable as change.
BOB DYLANIf you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.
BOB DYLANEverything passes, Everything changes, Just do what you think you should do.
BOB DYLANStrange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than those who are most content.
BOB DYLANHe not busy being born is busy dying.
BOB DYLANWhat’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 DYLANBehind every beautiful thing, there’s some kind of pain.
BOB DYLANYou have to work out where your place is. And who you are. But we’re all spirit. That’s all we are, we’re just walking dressed up in a suit of skin, and we’re going to leave that behind.
BOB DYLANAll the money you made will never buy back your soul.
BOB DYLANTake care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.
BOB DYLANYou don’t necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they’re poets. I don’t call myself a poet, because I don’t like the word. I’m a trapeze artist.
BOB DYLAN