Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Dylan

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

Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed, dignity never been photographed.

Bob Dylan

The good Samaritan, he's getting dressed, he's getting ready for the show. He's going to the carnival tonight on Desolation Row.

Bob Dylan

Jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule.

Bob Dylan

Obscenity, who really cares. Propaganda, all is phony.

Bob Dylan

In this age of fiberglass, I'm searching for a gem.

Bob Dylan

Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.

Bob Dylan

Everybody's wearing a disguise, to hide what they've got left behind their eyes.

Bob Dylan

Don't know which one is worse, doing your own thing or just being cool.

Bob Dylan

Disillusioned words like bullets bark as human gods aim for their mark.

Bob Dylan

Anger and jealousy's all that he sells us, he's content when you're under his thumb. Madmen oppose him, but your kindness throws him, to survive it you play deaf and dumb.

Bob Dylan

They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs, or their wives.

Bob Dylan

Too much information about nothing.

Bob Dylan

You'll find out when you reach the top, you're on the bottom.

Bob Dylan

You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you.

Bob Dylan

Trying to create a next world war, he found a promoter who nearly fell off the floor, he said I never engaged in this kind of thing before, but yes I think it can be very easily done.

Bob Dylan

Art is a never-ending dance of illusions.

Bob Dylan

Really the truth is just a plain picture. A plain picture of, let's say, a tramp vomiting in the sewere. You know, and next door to the picture Mr. Rockefeller or Mr. C. W. Jones on the subway going to work. You know, any kind of picture. Just make a collage of pictures.

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

Some are masters of illusions, some are ministers of trade, all under the same delusion, all their beds unmade.

Bob Dylan

In 1975,Bob Dylan was almost 10 years past his prime - and then he released the best album of his career, Blood on the Tracks. Written and recorded amid a painful divorce, Blood on the Tracks is proof that heartbreak makes great art - just as many of the albums that followed were the opposite.

Bob Dylan

An artist has got to be constantly in a state of becoming.

Bob Dylan

You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist, and 'load every rift' of your subject with ore.

Bob Dylan

I've been sitting down studying the Art of Love. I think it will fit me like a glove.

Billy Childish

Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging work I've seen of late is by The British Art Resistance. Their document, 'A Call for Heroes in an Age of Cowards', is apt in these days of witless chancers.

Billy Childish

I coined this term 'freedom thru limitation' back in the '90s because I was sick of art being treated like pop, because of this boring 'anything can be art' theory.

Billy Childish

I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.

Billy Childish

It is an artist's duty to be on the wrong end of the see-saw.

Billy Childish

Artists who don't paint aren't artists.

Billy Currington

Anytime I get to be around the fans it's always a good time, especially during Music Fest. CMA puts together an event that allows artists to make that personal connection with the fans and it's wonderful. I look at it as our chance to give back to them and let them know we appreciate their support.

Billy Crystal

I was always drawn to performing, but I never thought I could. I have no idea what I wanted to do outside of the old cowboy-or-fireman. When I was in college, I got serious about acting. I started examining history and then everything related to the theater. History, art, all the other studies, if I could link them into the theater, then it became alive for me. It just opened up my eyes.

Billy Crystal

When comedy is good, it's jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection, the high notes of a joke. It's all melody to me.

Billy Connolly

I like Dali and Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist.