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• "A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom."
• "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."
• "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."
• "A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding."
• "A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."
• "A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet."
• "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."
• "All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die."
• "At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage."
• "Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be."
• "Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot."
• "Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere."
• "But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked."
• "Chaos is a friend of mine."
• "Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges."
• "Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid."
• "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."
• "I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me."
• "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."
  "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 theres some kind of change."
• "I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed."
• "I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged."
• "I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds."
• "I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet."
• "I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom."
  "I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours."
• "I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon."
• "I'm speaking for all of us. I'm the spokesman for a generation."
• I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that."
• "If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself."
• "In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge."
• "In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall."
• "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."
• "People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."
• "Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them."
• "The radio makes hideous sounds."
• "There is nothing so stable as change."
• "This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway."
• "To live outside the law, you must be honest."
• "Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past."
• "What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it."
• "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."
• "When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?"
• "Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be."
• "You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever."