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)

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.

Look out, kid, it’s sumpin’ ya did, God knows when, but you’re doin’ it again

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

When Johnson started singing, he seemed like a guy who could have sprung from the head of Zeus in full armor.

Johnny was and is the North Star. You could guide your ship by him.

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there’s some kind of change.

I’m speaking for all of us. I’m the spokesman for a generation.

The beginning was there in Minnesota. But that was the beginning before the beginning. I don’t know how I come to songs. I just go ahead and do it. I’m just sort of trying to...

Act the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you’d like to act.

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it’s like they didn’t fade away at all.

There is nothing so stable as change.

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

[The plot of] Always … Patsy Cline … Bessie Smith.

Opportunities may come along for you to convert something -something that exists into something that didn’t yet. That might be the beginning of it. Sometimes you just want to do things your way, want to...

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

You’ve got a lot of nerve, To say you are my friend, When I was down, you just stood there grinning

You’re gonna have to serve somebody.

For them that think death’s honesty won’t fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

People are crazy and times are strange, I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range, I use to care but things have changed.

Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!

Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land, And don’t criticize What you can’t understand

A lot of people can’t stand touring but to me it’s like breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it.

to plant a flag in the sand.

We are so scared of losing everything that doesn’t mean anything.

Couldn’t help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land where justice is a game.

Oh, the streets of Rome are filled with rubble,Ancient footprints are everywhere.You can almost think that you ‘ re seein ‘ doubleOn a cold dark night on the Spanish stairs…

You don’t need a weather man to know which way the wind blows. Don’t follow leaders watch the parkin’ meters.

From A Distance.

A poem is a naked person….Some people say that I am a poet.

The future for me is already a thing of the past -You were my first love and you will be my last

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

I wish that for just one time / you could stand inside my shoes / and just for that one moment / I could be you. / Yes, I wish that for just one time...

Well, I don’t know, but I’ve been told the streets in heaven are lined with gold. I ask you how things could get much worse if the Russians happen to get up there first; Wowee!...

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

I’ve been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, “”Okay, you’ve been up on the mountain, now you go down. You’re on your own,...

The Johnny Cash Show

Let me ask you one questionIs your money that goodWill it buy you forgivenessDo you think that it couldI think you will findWhen your death takes its tollAll the money you madeWill never buy back...

Come writers and criticsWho prophesize with your penAnd keep your eyes wideThe chance won’t come againAnd don’t speak too soonFor the wheel’s still in spinAnd there’s no tellin’ whoThat it’s namin’For the loser nowWill be...

I’m just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I’d be seeing Elvis soon.

Businessmen they drink my wine, Plowmen dig my earth, But none of them along the line, Know what any of it is worth