"Some one else is speaking with my mouth, but I'm listening only to my heart."

Bob Dylan Music See all quotes by Bob Dylan →

React to this quote

More by Bob Dylan

See all

“You have to be let alone to really accomplish anything.”

“Love is so simple, to quote a phrase; you've known it all the time, I'm learnin' it these days.”

“You may call me Bobby; you may call me Zimmy...”

“If there's anyone who knows, is there anyone who cares?”

“I am a writer an a singer of the words I write I am no speaker nor any politician an my songs speak for me because I write them in the confinement of my own mind an have t cope with no one except my own self.”

“I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more.”

Resonant Thoughts

"Christ's entire ministry can be summarized in just two words, live love."

— Flower A. Newhouse

Education1909–1994

#love

"She craved a presence beside her, solid. Fingertips light at the nape of her neck and a voice meeting hers in the dark. Someone who would wait with an umbrella to walk her home in the rain, and smile …"

— Laini Taylor

Literature1971

#love

"It may be relevant here to recall gratefully a fraternal correction I was kindly offered by the Archimandrite Ambrosius of the Greek Orthodox Church. After listening to a lecture I delivered at Oxford…"

— Aloysius Pieris

Religion1934

#mind

"Why not? What is to hinder this Samson from governing? There is in him what far transcends all apprenticeships; in the man himself there exists a model of governing, something to govern by! There exis…"

— Thomas Carlyle

Philosophy1795–1881

#life