The lines you reach for, and the catalog behind them.
A searchable index of Bob Dylan’s official songs, tagged by subject, with the short quotations people actually cite in writing, talks, and discussion. Full lyrics stay on the official site.
217 quotations · 706 songs · 82 official releases · 144 subjects
Cited often
The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind
The times they are a-changin’
How does it feel?
He not busy being born is busy dying
You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows
There must be some way out of here, said the joker to the thief
Come in, she said, I’ll give ya shelter from the storm
It’s not dark yet, but it’s getting there
I contain multitudes
I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now
Knock, knock, knockin’ on heaven’s door
May you stay forever young
Browse by subject
- love 78
- faith 30
- america 24
- memory 23
- farewell 18
- warning 18
- change 17
- identity 16
- hope 13
- time 13
- wisdom 13
- travel 12
- vision 12
- devotion 11
- story 11
- humor 10
- independence 10
- history 9
- freedom 8
- journey 8
- loneliness 8
- power 8
- protest 8
- questions 8
- regret 8
- blues 7
- longing 7
- bitterness 6
- invitation 6
- justice 6
- music 6
- night 6
- death 5
- endurance 5
- prophecy 5
- race 5
- surreal 5
- advice 4
- disaster 4
- dream 4
- grace 4
- home 4
- paradox 4
- search 4
- truth 4
- art 3
- confusion 3
- decision 3
- disillusion 3
- escape 3
- fall 3
- morality 3
- mortality 3
- nature 3
- outlaw 3
- pain 3
- redemption 3
- self 3
- tragedy 3
- trapped 3
- war 3
- adventure 2
- anger 2
- betrayal 2
- blessing 2
- chaos 2
- comfort 2
- corruption 2
- defiance 2
- desire 2
- fate 2
- friends 2
- joy 2
- judgment 2
- labor 2
- life 2
- loss 2
- mystery 2
- peace 2
- place 2
- poverty 2
- tribute 2
- waiting 2
- west 2
- youth 2
- ambition 1
- apology 1
- beauty 1
- breakdown 1
- chance 1
- choice 1
- class 1
- community 1
- compassion 1
- conscience 1
- conversion 1
- creation 1
- culture 1
- despair 1
- dignity 1
- distance 1
- doubt 1
- duality 1
- edge 1
- energy 1
- evil 1
- exclusion 1
- exhaustion 1
- fame 1
- family 1
- folk 1
- friendship 1
- generations 1
- gospel 1
- gratitude 1
- guilt 1
- honesty 1
- humility 1
- influence 1
- jazz 1
- messenger 1
- money 1
- myth 1
- partnership 1
- party 1
- patience 1
- perseverance 1
- perspective 1
- philosophy 1
- politics 1
- prayer 1
- pride 1
- promise 1
- refuge 1
- renewal 1
- responsibility 1
- rest 1
- restraint 1
- return 1
- struggle 1
- talk 1
- transformation 1
- will 1
- work 1
Studio albums
- 1962 Bob Dylan
- 1963 The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
- 1964 Another Side of Bob Dylan
- 1964 The Times They Are A-Changin’
- 1965 Bringing It All Back Home
- 1965 Highway 61 Revisited
- 1966 Blonde on Blonde
- 1967 John Wesley Harding
- 1969 Nashville Skyline
- 1970 New Morning
- 1970 Self Portrait
- 1973 Dylan
- 1974 Planet Waves
- 1975 Blood on the Tracks
- 1975 The Basement Tapes
- 1976 Desire
- 1978 Street-Legal
- 1979 Slow Train Coming
- 1980 Saved
- 1981 Shot of Love
- 1983 Infidels
- 1985 Empire Burlesque
- 1986 Knocked Out Loaded
- 1988 Down in the Groove
- 1989 Oh Mercy
- 1990 Under the Red Sky
- 1992 Good as I Been to You
- 1993 The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration
- 1993 World Gone Wrong
- 1997 Time out of Mind
- 2001 “Love and Theft”
- 2006 Modern Times
- 2007 Dylan
- 2009 Christmas in the Heart
- 2009 Together Through Life
- 2012 Tempest
- 2014 The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration – Deluxe Edition
- 2015 Shadows in the Night
- 2016 Fallen Angels
- 2017 Triplicate
- 2020 Rough and Rowdy Ways