Words of wisdom by Bob Dylan
On democracy…
Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.
On God…
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.
On nature…
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.
On bootlegs…
The bootleg records, those are outrageous. I mean, they have stuff you do in a phone booth. Like, nobody`s around. If you`re just sitting and strumming in a motel, you don`t think anybody`s there, you know . . . it`s like the phone is tapped and then it appears on a bootleg record. With a cover that`s got a picture of you taken from underneath your bed and it`s got a striptease-type title and it costs $30. Amazing. Then you wonder why most artists feel so paranoid.
On “the saviors of rock ‘n’ roll”…
I know there are groups at the top of the charts that are hailed as the saviors of rock `n` roll and all that, but they are amateurs. They don`t know where the music comes from . . . I wouldn`t even think about playing music if I was born in these times . . . I`d probably turn to something like mathematics. That would interest me. Architecture would interest me. Something like that.
On greed…
Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul
On death…
Death to me is nothing, death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.
Bob Dylan
