"Well I tried my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them"

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

"The reform of the broadcasting law in 1989 allowed access to ownership of the electronic media by economic groups with other interests. ... ince these business groups make more money with other busine…"

— Horacio Verbitsky

Politics1942

#justice

"If anyone from Pakistan goes to India to fight jihad...he will be the first to do an injustice to Kashmiris, he will be the enemy of Kashmiris."

— Imran Khan

Politics1952

#justice

"We have known divisions, which must be healed to move forward in great purposes — and I will strive in good faith to heal them. Yet those divisions do not define America. We felt the unity and fellows…"

— George W. Bush

Politics1824–1900

#justice

"I was just chucking these rocks over the garden wall, and I'd listen to this amazing crash from the greenhouse, next door, over, over in England, as everything I wrote from Brussels was having this am…"

— Boris Johnson

Politics1964

#justice