Bob Dylan Quotes About Love, Life, Songs, Change, Friendship, Time, Freedom, Music, Birthday & Funeral! In addition to being a songwriter and singer, Bob Dylan was a significant figure in the folk and pop music movements in the United States. Since Dylan’s career spans over six decades, he has been a favorite among generations of music lovers. On May 24, 1941, Bob Dylan was born in a close-knit Jewish community.
His love of music began early, and he spent hours listening to the radio. In his high school years, he was a member of many bands. He enrolled at the University of Minnesota in 1959. When he began performing, he changed his name to “Bob Dylan.” In 1961, he left college to pursue a career in music in New York City. The musician began playing in clubs and experimenting with music.
‘Bob Dylan,’ his debut album, came out in 1962. Bob Dylan’s next album, ‘The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan’ (1963), was a big hit in the U.S. and U.K. It was an album combining protest songs, love songs, and blues with social messages, incredibly appealing to the audience and gaining the singer considerable popularity. As a songwriter and singer, he gained enormous popularity during the 1960s.
His album ‘Blonde on Blonde’ was a significant success. In the United States, on the Billboard 200 chart, the album reached No. 9 and No. 3 in the United Kingdom. The album came double platinum in the United States and was very successful commercially. One of his greatest albums is Blood on the Tracks from 1975. There are several awards Bob Dylan has won. During his career, he’s won 11 Grammy Awards, including one for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance in 2007.
Best Bob Dylan Quotes
1. “You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.” – Bob Dylan
2. “Behind every beautiful thing, there’s some kind of pain.”― Bob Dylan
3. “I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.”― Bob Dylan
4. “I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.” – Bob Dylan
5. “May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung.”― Bob Dylan
6. “A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.” ― Bob Dylan
7. “When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?” ― Bob Dylan
8. “When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it – don’t back down and don’t give up – then you’re going to mystify a lot of folks.”― Bob Dylan
9. “You’re gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you’re gonna have to serve somebody…”― Bob Dylan
10. “I’m mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it’s the only place where I’m happy.” – Bob Dylan
11. “The future for me is already a thing of the past – You were my first love and you will be my last”― Bob Dylan
12. “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” ― Bob Dylan
13. “If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there’s no success like failure”― Bob Dylan
14. “People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.” – Bob Dylan
15. “Even if you don’t have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don’t have that you don’t want (Bob Dylan’s dad)”― Bob Dylan
16. “You been down to the bottom with a bad man, babe But you’re back were you belong”― Bob Dylan
17. “Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.” – Bob Dylan
18. “Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.”― Bob Dylan
19. “Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.” – Bob Dylan
20. “I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.”― Bob Dylan
21. “I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn’t allowed him to do or encouraged him to do.”― Bob Dylan
22. “You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free.” – Bob Dylan
23. “Gonna change my way of thinking, make my self a different set of rules. Gonna put my good foot forward and stop being influenced by fools.” ― Bob Dylan
24. “If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.”― Bob Dylan
25. “A lot of people can’t stand touring but to me it’s like breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it.” – Bob Dylan
26. “Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be.” – Bob Dylan
27. “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.” – Bob Dylan
28. “A lot of people don’t like the road, but it’s as natural to me as breathing.” – Bob Dylan
29. “You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more” ― Bob Dylan
30. “Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it’s like they didn’t fade away at all.”― Bob Dylan
