3 December 2020 Bob Dylan I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.
3 December 2020 Bob Dylan At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.
3 December 2020 Bob Dylan All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
3 December 2020 Bob Dylan A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
3 December 2020 Bob Dylan I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
3 December 2020 Bob Dylan The land created me. I’m wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I’m more at home in the vacant lots.
3 December 2020 Bob Dylan 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.
3 December 2020 Bob Dylan I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.
3 December 2020 Bob Dylan You can’t imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.
3 December 2020 Bob Dylan What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.
3 December 2020 Bob Dylan I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.
3 December 2020 Bob Dylan 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 theres some kind of change.
3 December 2020 Bob Dylan Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there’s no fitting into it now.
3 December 2020 Bob Dylan Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Bob Dylan I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.
3 December 2020 Bob Dylan I don’t think I’ve ever been an agnostic. I’ve always thought there’s a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there’s a world to come.
3 December 2020 Bob Dylan People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around – the music and the ideas.
3 December 2020 Bob Dylan You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.
3 December 2020 Bob Dylan My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.
