Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Bob Dylan Quotes
Power DynamicsResilienceLoyaltyDefiance In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.
SacrificeAmbitionSelf-DiscoveryPurpose Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
InspirationScarcityProactivenessOpportunity Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.
IntegrityConvictionRegretConvenience People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
NatureWildernessSolitudeBelonging The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.
DreamNatureUnnaturalDecay 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.
GodDivine NatureArbitrariness You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.
EqualityMortalityCommonality All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
TimeReflectionHopeChangeAcceptance Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.
Culture 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.
CommunicationSocietyKnowledgeExpressionInspiration In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
Live PerformanceAuthenticityExperienceMusic Quality My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.
LearningExperienceWisdomKnowledgePersonal Growth You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.
Self-PreservationPragmatismSelf-Control I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something.
AcceptanceAuthenticityPerceptionIndividuality I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
HumilityVulnerability But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.
EmotionChangeSensitivity I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.
HumorSarcasmCollege LifeMortality Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
WritingPracticeCreativityEvolutionPassion You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.
PassionDriveMotivation 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.
FulfillmentHappinessSuccessAutonomyPurpose 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.
PowerIndividualismControlEmpathyCultural Disconnect 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.
Limitations of ArtPerspectiveExperience I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.
ChangeDiligenceGrowth MindsetSelf-Improvement I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.
TraditionModernityTimelessnessChange 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.