There’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.
The future for me is already a thing of the past – You were my first love and you will be my last.
Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than those who are most content.
A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
There are those who worship loneliness, I’m not one of them In this age of fiberglass I’m searching for a gem The crystal ball up on the wall hasn’t shown me nothing yet I’ve paid the price of solitude, but at last I’m out of debt.
Music attracts the angels in the universe.
If you told the truth, that was all well and good and if you told the un-truth, well, that’s still well and good. Folk songs had taught me that.
But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.
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.
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.
Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it’s like they didn’t fade away at all.
A song is anything that can walk by itself.
I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else’s.
You can always come back, but you can’t come back all the way.
Somebody had to be Bob Dylan. I guess I was best equipped to do the job.
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.
If I had wings, no one would ask me: should I fly?
The worth of things can’t be measured by what they cost but by what the cost you to get it, that if anything costs you your faith or your family, then the price is too high, and that there are some things that will never wear out.
It’s very tiring having other people tell you how much they dig you if you yourself don’t dig you.
My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.