Bob Dylan — People

Curled strips of yellow, coral and cream paper float against a deep plum background. — Original artwork

Chaos is a friend of mine.

Bob Dylan

Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon-but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx-the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?

Bob Dylan

Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.

Bob Dylan

A wilted brown tulip stands beside a glass bell jar containing a wisp of cloud and a floating paper moon, on a mauve background. — Original artwork

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.

Bob Dylan

A brass balance scale with a red apple on one pan and small dark metal pieces on the other, on a rocky platform beneath a dusk sky. — Original artwork

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

Bob Dylan

Three short golden strings hanging above a thick slab of cobalt blue and ochre paint. — Original artwork

In writing songs I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.

Bob Dylan

A rope is coiled on warm stone beside deep blue-green harbour water. — Original artwork

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

Bob Dylan

It pays to know who your friends are but it also pays to know you ain't got any friends.

Bob Dylan

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, free. Check in later, but now you’re on your own.”

Bob Dylan

Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I’m not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I’ve never thought about that before! He said, When you’re not following me, you’re resisting me.

Bob Dylan

An ochre paper pinwheel and a brown feather rest on a small square of lilac paper. — Original artwork

The first way to answer the questions in the song is by asking them. But lots of people have to first find the wind.

Bob Dylan

When I first heard Elvis’s voice I just knew that I wasn’t going to work for anybody and nobody was gonna be my boss. Hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail.

Bob Dylan