If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure Bob Dylan More Quotes by Bob Dylan More Quotes From Bob Dylan But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked. Bob Dylan naked united-states president There are those who worship loneliness, I'm not one of them In this age of fiberglass I'm searching for a gem The crystal ball up on the wall hasn't shown me nothing yet I've paid the price of solitude, but at last I'm out of debt Bob Dylan wall solitude loneliness I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were too big to see all at once, like all the books in the library-everything laying around on all the tables. You might be able to put it all into one paragraph or into one verse of a song if you could get it right. Bob Dylan song book ideas I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else. Bob Dylan certain persons sleep The worth of things can't be measured by what they cost but by what the cost you to get it, that if anything costs you your faith or your family, then the price is too high, and that there are some things that will never wear out. Bob Dylan cost ifs Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be. Bob Dylan ambition order needs My best songs were written very quickly. Just about as much time as it takes to write it down is about as long as it takes to write it...In writing songs I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie...It's not me, it's the songs. I'm just the postman, I deliver the songs...I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet. Bob Dylan writing song long Ring the bells for the blind and deaf. Bob Dylan bells deaf blind A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness. Bob Dylan this-life self people I kinda live where I find myself. Bob Dylan He did ten years in Attica, reading Nietzsche and Wilhelm Reich. Bob Dylan ten reading years Come mothers and fathers Bob Dylan daughter mother father It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be. Bob Dylan fear sweet life I fought with my twin, the enemy within. Bob Dylan twins insanity enemy No reason to get excited,' the thief, he kindly spoke, There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. Bob Dylan excited thieves life-is I'll remember you. When I've forgotten all the rest.You to me were true. You to me were the best. Bob Dylan memorial remembers-you remember-you The dirt of gossip blows into my face and the dust rumors cover me. But if the arrow is straight and the point is slick, it can pierce through dust no matter how thick. Bob Dylan media blow art Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them. Bob Dylan vacation memories travel I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen. Bob Dylan next moments clouds I had ambitions to set out and find, like an odyssey or going home somewhere, set out to find this home that I'd left a while back and couldn't remember exactly where it was, but I was on my way there. And encountering what I encountered on the way was how I envisioned it all. I didn't really have any ambition at all. I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be, and so, I'm on my way home, you know? Bob Dylan ambition home way
