MSTROXY

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

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.

When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don’t back down and don’t give up - then you’re going to mystify a lot of folks.

The radio makes hideous sounds.

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

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the ’60s. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

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

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

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

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 right now in a big way.

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

It rubs me the wrong way, a camera . . . It’s a frightening thing . . . Cameras make ghosts out of people.

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

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.

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

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

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.

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.

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.

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

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

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

Chaos is a friend of mine.

Being on tour is like being in limbo. It’s like going from nowhere to nowhere.

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.

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

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

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

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

I’ve only written four songs in my whole life, but I’ve written those four songs a million times.

I wasn’t a good husband . . . I don’t even know what a good husband is.

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