Bob Dylan on Truth
Browse 10 quotations attributed to Bob Dylan, catalogued under truth, with dates where available.
This page displays 10 quotations attributed to Bob Dylan and filed under "truth" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Bob Dylan, entry #138523: "Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else."
Attributed to Bob Dylan, entry #208168: "And every one of them words rang true and glowed like burnin' coal. Pourin' off of every page, like it was written in my soul from me to you..."
10 Quotes by Bob Dylan on Truth
"Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else."
"And every one of them words rang true and glowed like burnin' coal. Pourin' off of every page, like it was written in my soul from me to you..."
"Don't ask me nothin' about nothin'. I just might tell you the truth."
"Truth is an arrow, and the gate is narrow that it passes through."
"Of war and peace the truth just twist, its curfew gull it glides."
"And there are no truths outside the Gates of Eden."
"All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie"
"But to live outside the law, you must be honest."
"As a performer I've played for 50,000 people and I've played for 50 people and I can tell you that it is harder to play for 50 people. 50,000 people have a singular persona, not so with 50. Each person has an individual, separate identity, a world unto themselves. They can perceive things more clearly. Your honesty and how it relates to the depth of your talent is tried."
"Sometimes you say things in songs even if there's a small chance of them being true. And sometimes you say things that have nothing to do with the truth of what you want to say and sometimes you say things that everyone knows to be true. Then again, at the same time, you're thinking that the only truth on earth is that there is no truth on it. Whatever you are saying, you're saying in a ricky-tick way. There's never time to reflect. You stitched and pressed and packed and drove, is what you did."