Even if you don’t have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don’t have that you don’t want (Bob Dylan’s dad)

I failed to communicate, that’s why I chose to leave

Thinking of a series of dreamsWhere the time and the tempo flyAnd there’s no exit in any direction’Cept the one that you can’t see with your eyes

[Neil Young’s lyrics from his 1988 hit] This Notes For You … The Times They Are A Changing.

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

Twenty years of schoolin’ / And they put you on the day shift.

Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.

You’re gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you’re gonna have to serve somebody…

It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry

Just because you like my stuff doesn’t mean I owe you anything.

In the dime stores and bus stations, People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, Draw conclusions on the wall

A self-ordained professors tongue, too serious to fool …

Beauty walks a razors edge, someday I’ll make it mine.

My grandfather was a duck trapperHe could do it with just dragnets and ropesMy grandmother could sew new dresses out of old clothI don’t know if they had any dreams or hopesI had ’em once...

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

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn’t call himself a poet.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Both these girls . . . brought out the poet in me.

All I can be is me- whoever that is.

There must be some kind of way out of here,’ said the joker to the thief…

The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind, The answer is blowin’ in the wind

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

When asked what his songs were about: Some are about 10 minutes long, others are about 5 or 6.

A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

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...

DESTINY is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have in your own mind of what you’re about WILL COME TRUE. It’s a kind of a...

In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.

I don’t believe you. You’re a liar.

Like a Rolling Stone

Yes, and only if my own true love was waiting If I could hear his heart softly pounding Yes, and only if he was lying by me Would I lie in my bed once again.

I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.

You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

Johnny’s in the basement, mixin’ up the medicine…I’m on the pavement, thinkin’ about the government.

May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be...

He not busy being born is busy dying.

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...

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

I cannot rhyme or play guitar, piano and am not very much interested in doing any of these.

Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

Behind every beautiful thing, there’s some kind of pain.

I had no songs in my repertoire for commercial radio anyway. Songs about debauched bootleggers, mothers that drowned their own children, Cadillacs that only got five miles to the gallon, floods, union hall fires, darkness...

Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be.

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

Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that’s going on...

Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift – look out out kid, they keep it all hid

Ah, but I was so much older thenI’m younger than that now

I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.

Don’t think twice, it’s all right.