Bob Dylan

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

You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life. ”

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary. ”

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas. ”

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system. ”

I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours. ”

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now. ”

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record. ”

The radio makes hideous sounds. ”

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work. ”