Bob Dylan

Music attracts the angels in the universe.

Bob Dylan

Music can save people, but it can’t in the commercial way it’s being used. It’s just too much. It’s pollution.

Bob Dylan

My big fear was that my guitar would go out of tune.

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.

Bob Dylan

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.

Bob Dylan

My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited poems with jazz bands.

Bob Dylan

New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.

Bob Dylan

Once I went into songwriting, I figured I had to – I couldn’t be a hellfire rock ‘n’ roller. But I could write hellfire lyrics.

Bob Dylan

One should never be where one does not belong.

Bob Dylan

Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.

Bob Dylan