Bob Dylan

“Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.”

“Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.”

“I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something.”

“I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.”

“A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.”

“reality has too many heads”

“But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.”

“Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.”

“look, you know i don't wanna come on ungrateful, but that warren report, you know as well as me, just didn't make it. You know, like they might as well have asked some banana salesman from des moines, who was up in toronto on the big day, if he saw anyone around looking suspicious/...”

“And if you don’t underestimate me, I won’t underestimate you.”

“Play it fuckin' loud!”

“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.”

“I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.”

“I really didn't consider myself happy or unhappy.”

“I never saw myself as a folk singer.”

“And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.”

“I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.”

“I was always fishing for something on the radio. Just like trains and bells, it was part of the soundtrack of my life. I moved the dial up and down and Roy Orbison's voice came blasting out of the small speakers. His new song, "Running Scared," exploded into the room.Orbison, though, transcended all the genres - folk, country, rock and roll or just about anything. His stuff mixed all the styles and some that hadn't even been invented yet. He could sound mean and nasty on one line and then sing in a falsetto voice like Frankie Valli in the next. With Roy, you didn't know if you were listening to mariachi or opera. He kept you on your toes. With him, it was all about fat and blood. He sounded like he was singing from an Olympian mountaintop and he meant business. One of his previous songs, "Ooby Dooby" was deceptively simple, but Roy had progressed. He was now singing his compositions in three or four octaves that made you want to drive your car over a cliff. He sang like a professional criminal. Typically, he'd start out in some low, barely audible range, stay there a while and then astonishingly slip into histrionics. His voice could jar a corpse, always leave you muttring to yourself something like, "Man, I don't believe it." His songs had songs within songs. They shifted from major to minor key without any logic. Orbison was deadly serious - no pollywog and no fledgling juvenile. There wasn't anything else on the radio like him.”

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

“The radio makes hideous sounds.”