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 More Quotes by Bob Dylan More Quotes From Bob Dylan Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them? Bob Dylan purpose inspire art What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing. Bob Dylan world The Rolling Stones are truly the greatest rock and roll band in the world and always will be. The last too. Everything that came after them, metal, rap, punk, new wave, pop-rock, you name it... you can trace it all back to the Rolling Stones. They were the first and the last and no one's ever done it better. Bob Dylan rock-and-roll rocks rap I've been sitting down studying the Art of Love. I think it will fit me like a glove. Bob Dylan sitting-down art thinking If ever asked to look at yourself, don't. Bob Dylan look-at-yourself ifs looks If I had wings, no one would ask me: should I fly? Bob Dylan ask-me should wings Every step of the way we walk the line Bob Dylan lines struggle time You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free. Bob Dylan land-of-the-free land want Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul [Minnesota] in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language. Bob Dylan mexico cities mind You've got to lose your passion for dumbness. Bob Dylan dumbness passion interesting Recording studios are filled with technology. They are set in their ways. And to update them means you'd have to change them back. That would be my idea of upgrading. And this will never happen. As far as I know, recording studios are booked all the time. So obviously people like all the improvements. The more technically advanced they are, the more in demand they become. Bob Dylan technology mean ideas I forgot more than you'll ever know. Bob Dylan forgotten knows Bob Dylan wasn't a big star early on; it was the release of his Greatest Hits album in 1967, and the mainstream success of the stoner anthem "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" ("Everybody must get stoned!"), that really put him on the mainstream map. Bob Dylan rainy-day albums stars Don't follow leaders, watch your parkin' meters. Bob Dylan politics leader watches Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about. Bob Dylan obvious easy way Either I'm too sensitive, or else I'm gettin' soft Bob Dylan sensitivity sensitive We're constantly being bombarded by insulting and humiliating music, which people are making for you the way they make those Wonder Bread products. Just as food can be bad for your system, music can be bad for your spiritual and emotional feelings. It might taste good or clever, but in the long run, it's not going to do anything for you. Bob Dylan music spiritual running You know what they say about bein' nice to the right people on the way up Sooner or later you gonna meet them comin' down Bob Dylan nice people way Whatever colors you have in your mind, I'll show them to you and you'll see them shine. Bob Dylan color shining mind There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I'm trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politics. They have got nothing to do with it. I'm thinking about the general people and when they get hurt. Bob Dylan black-and-white hurt thinking
