Bob Dylan najznámejšie citáty
Bob Dylan citáty a výroky

„Akceptujem chaos. Len neviem či on akceptuje mňa.“
I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.
Prisudzované výroky
„Počúvať svoje vlastné skladby mi pripomína pozeranie do mŕtvého zrkadla.“
Prisudzované výroky
Zdroj: Porovnaj: Dylan On Dylan: The Essential Interviews. NY: Hadder Stoughton 2006.
Bob Dylan: Citáty v angličtine
“Don't know how it all got started, I don't know what they do with their lives…”
Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), Tangled Up In Blue
Song lyrics, Self Portrait (1970), Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
“I don't call myself a poet because I don't like the word.”
Bob Dylan Interview http://www.interferenza.com/bcs/interw/65-aug.htm by Nora Ephron & Susan Edmiston (1965)
“It is not he or she or them or it
That you belong to.”
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
“You ain't worth the blood that runs in your veins.”
Song lyrics, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), Masters of War
“Your debutante knows what you need, but I know what you want.”
Song lyrics, Blonde on Blonde (1966), Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
“Visions of your chestnut mare shoot through my head and are makin' me see stars.”
Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), Idiot Wind
“Steal a little and they throw you in jail; steal a lot and they make you king.”
Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Sweetheart Like You
“I'm inconsistent, even to myself.”
Quoted in "POP/JAZZ; A Wiser Voice Blowin' In the Autumn Wind" http://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/28/arts/pop-jazz-a-wiser-voice-blowin-in-the-autumn-wind.html by Jon Pareles, The New York Times (28 September 1997)
“We always did feel the same, we just saw it from a different point of view…”
Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), Tangled Up In Blue
Song lyrics, Under the Red Sky (1990), T.V. Talking Song
Song lyrics, Slow Train Coming (1979), Slow Train
“You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way.”
Song lyrics, Love and Theft (2001), Mississippi
Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Ballad of a Thin Man
“They'll kick you when you're up and knock you when you're down.”
Song lyrics, Under the Red Sky (1990), Hard Times In New York Town (recorded 1961)
Song lyrics, Slow Train Coming (1979), Precious Angel
“There is one thing I know though I'm younger than you
Even Jesus would not forgive what you do”
Song lyrics, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), Masters of War
“Nobody feels any pain
Tonight as I stand inside the rain”
Song lyrics, Blonde on Blonde (1966), Just Like A Woman
Song lyrics, The Bootleg Series Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962–1964 (2010), Long Time Gone (recorded 1962)
“I said, "You know they refused Jesus, too"
He said, "You're not Him"”
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Bob Dylan's 115th Dream
“They already expect you to just give a check to tax-deductible charity organization.”
Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Ballad of a Thin Man
Interview http://www.interferenza.com/bcs/interw/84-jul30.htm with Bert Kleinman (30 July 1984). Cf. C. S. Lewis: "People won't write the books I want, so I have to do it for myself."
“I heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world.”
Song lyrics, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall
“The words fill my head, and fall to the floor, that if God's on our side, he'll stop the next war.”
Song lyrics, The Times They Are A-Changin' (1964), With God On Our Side
Bob Dylan: The Song Talk Interview http://www.interferenza.com/bcs/interw/1991zollo.htm by Paul Zollo (1991)
Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), You're a Big Girl Now
Neil Hickey TV Guide interview http://www.punkhart.com/dylan/interviews/sep_1976.html (11 September 1976)