Frases de Bob Dylan

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“Eu aceito o caos, não tenho certeza se me aceita.”

“A felicidade não está na estrada que leva a algum lugar. A felicidade é a própria estrada.”

“Uns sentem a chuva, outros apenas se molham.”

“Não sou eu. São as músicas. Eu sou só o carteiro. Eu entrego as músicas.”

“Suas roupas estão sujas, mas suas mãos estão limpas E você é a melhor coisa que ele já viu. Lay lady lay”

“Um homem é um sucesso se pula da cama pela manhã, vai dormir à noite e, nesse meio tempo, faz o que gosta.”

“O primeiro agora será o último mais tarde. Pois os tempos, eles estão mudando.”

“Você não pode ser sábio e estar amando ao mesmo tempo.”

“Toda essa conversa sobre a igualdade. A única coisa que as pessoas realmente têm em comum é que eles estão todos indo para morrer”

“A única coisa que as pessoas tem em comum é que estão todas caminhando em direção a morte.”

“Eu queria pôr fogo naquela gente. Todos aqueles arrombadores, assombrações, invasores e demagogos atrapalhavam minha vida doméstica (…). O que quer que fosse a contracultura, eu estava farto dela. Estava farto das interpretações malucas de minhas letras e do fato de ter sido ungido o Chefão da Revolta, o Grande Sacerdote do Protesto, o Czar da Discordância, o Duque da Desobediência, o Líder dos Doidões (…).”

“Sempre fui atraído por certo tipo de mulher. É a voz, mais do que qualquer coisa. Ouço primeiro a voz.”

“Ouvir Elvis é como escapar da prisão.”

“Eu fazia canções, não eram sermões. Se examinarem as canções, não acredito que encontrem nada que digo que sou porta-voz de alguém ou de alguma coisa”

“Eu canto tão bem quanto Caruso.”

“Às vezes em minhas canções sou eu falando comigo.”

“Estou contente por ter melhorado. Realmente cheguei a pensar que logo iria ver Elvis.”

“A maioria desses caras assume o cargo com as melhores das intenções e o deixam como homens derrotados.”

“Ele é uma bicha delirante com cérebro de anfetamina cósmica. É, eu curto Shakeaspere.”

“Quando eu ouvi a voz de Elvis pela primeira vez eu sabia que não ia trabalhar para ninguém e ninguém seria meu chefe. Ele é o deus supremo do rock and roll hoje. Ouvir Elvis e como escapar da prisão. Eu agradeço à Deus por Elvis Presley.”

“Twenty years of schoolin'
And they put you on the day shift”

“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.”

“Little red wagon, little red bike, I ain’t no monkey but I know what I like.”

“Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb.”

“People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.”

“Old lady judges watch people in pairs
Limited in sex, they dare
To push fake morals, insult and stare
While money doesn't talk, it swears
Obscenity, who really cares
Propaganda, all is phony.”

“Technology to wipe out truth is now available. Not everybody can afford it but it's available. When the cost comes down, look out!”

“If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.”

“I wanted to read all these books, but I would have to have been in a rest home or something to do that (p. 37,).”

“It's not dark yet, but it's getting there…”

“When you think that you lost everything you find out you can always lose a little more.”

“Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride
You will not die, it’s not poison”

“they say every man needs protection, they say every man must fall.
yet I swear I see my reflection, some place high above this wall….. and someday I shall be released.”

“A million faces at my feet but all I see are dark eyes.”

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

“You're born, you know, the wrong names, wrong parents. I mean, that happens. You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free.”

“Can you please crawl out your window? Use your arms and your legs, it won't ruin you”

“It's east to see without lookin' too far that not much is really sacred.”

“If you're looking to get silly, you better go back to from where you came. because the cops don't need you and man they expect the same.”

“I've been trying to get as far away from myself as I can”

“The old Rounder in the iron mask slipped me the master key, somebody had to unlock your heart, he said it was up to me.”

“[Recounting a scene in The Gunfighter] Turn him loose, let him go, let him say he outdrew me fair and square — I want him to feel what it's like to every moment face his death.”

“It wasn't money or love that I was looking for. I had a heightened sense of awareness, was set in my ways, impractical and a visionary to boot. My mind was strong like a trap and I didn't need any guarantee of validity.”

“And if I don't make it, you know my baby will.”

“I believe in you even on the morning after.”

“But I can’t think for you
You’ll have to decide
Whether Judas Iscariot
Had God on his side”

“If you want somebody you can trust, trust yourself.”

“She could take the dark out the nighttime and paint the daytime black.”

“All is gone, all is gone, admit it, take flight.
I gagged twice, doubled, tears blinding my sight.
My mind it was mangled, I ran into the night
Leaving all of love's ashes behind me.
The wind knocks my window, the room it is wet.
The words to say I'm sorry, I haven't found yet.
I think of her often and hope whoever she's met
Will be fully aware of how precious she is.
Ah, my friends from the prison, they ask unto me,
"How good, how good does it feel to be free?"”