Bob Dylan on Life

"They talk about a life of brotherly love? Show me someone who knows how to live it."

"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around — the music and the ideas."

"The whole world's a bottle, And life's but a dram, When the bottle gets empty, It sure ain't worth a damn."

"I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet."

"We're going all the way, till the wheels fall off and burn, till the sun peels the paint and the seat covers fade and the water moccasins die."

"Colleges are like old-age homes; except for the fact that more people die in colleges."

"I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's."

"Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be."

"She said, "Welcome to the land of the living dead," but you could tell she was so brokenhearted — she said, "Even the swap meets around here are getting pretty corrupt."

"What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not threatening—all bunk. No guarantees of anything, not even the guarantee that life isn't one big joke."

"I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity."

"It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be..."

"I live in another world, where life and death are memorized."

"It frightens me the awful truth of how sweet life can be."

"Let me die in my footsteps before I go under the ground."

"I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it."

"In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand at the mongrel dogs who teach Fearing not that I'd become my enemy in the instant that I preach My existence led by confusion boats, mutiny from stern to bow."