Bob Dylan Quotes - Page 3

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

Be groovy or leave, man

My big fear was that my guitar would go out of tune.

I really was never any more than what I was -a folk musician who gazed into the gray mist with tear-blinded eyes and made up songs that floated in a luminous haze.

All I'd ever done was sing songs that were dead straight and expressed powerful new realities. I had very little in common with and knew even less about a generation that I was supposed to be the voice of.

..And songs, to me, were more important than just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of reality, some different republic, some liberated republic.

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.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

It seemed I'd always been chasing after something, anything that moved -a car, a bird, a blowing leaf -anything that might lead me into some more lit place, some unknown land downriver. I had not even the vaguest notion of the broken world I was living in, what society could do with you.

What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not threatening - all bunk. No guarantees of anything, not even the guarantee that life isn't one big joke.