Bob Dylan Quotes

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually.

Pour a liquid out of its container, and it changes shape, fills the space you give it. If you give children a lot of space, it may surprise you where they'll go and the shape they'll take.

My style evolves day by day; I love change.

I'm just constantly figuring out new ways to reinvent myself.

I think that the power of reinvention is very important.

I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.

Habit is necessary. It is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive ... one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in the big things, and happy in small ways.

The fun for me is to mix it all up. I would actually like to do something as far away from what I've just done, just for my own personal joy and growth, for what I want to do.

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

There's been a lot of role reversal going on in the band. The roles people have been playing for a long time will always be there, but everybody's willing to try on different outfits.

The important thing to remember, if you are trying something that is an innovation, is not to think too much about it. Because if you take too long, by the time you get there, the world will have changed. You take a risk, and if it doesn't work, you make a change. We are not betting our lives on it.

You can always think that we're old and not innovative, but there is no company that can limp on for 139 years without being creative and having the genes to change.

You know that I'm always a proponent of doing things differently.

I like change, and I like being in the middle of change.

I had a teacher, he was 86 years old and his name was Luigi in New York City, and he said, 'Never stop moving. You get to reinvent yourself.' So you have to find ways to reinventing yourself. Especially today, because it's a whole different market - social media is so important.

If people stop liking my clothes, I'll make a record.

Creativity has always depended on openness and flexibility, so let us hope for more of both in the future.

I want to always find new ways of reinventing myself.

Part of being innovative in government is sometimes not trying to plot out the last chapter of the book, but to be open and see what comes back.

Whether I am collaborating with different people, I like changing projects conceptually so I can grow.

I'm not a career filmmaker. I just like to do things that I still kind of believe in and because of that you just never know what's going to happen next. It doesn't matter if it's been a good year or a bad year: next year, there's no telling what it will be like.

Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have learned to embrace the creative possibilities of change - who stand the best chance of penetrating life's mysteries.

Every time you're given a job, you're given a gift, and if you're flexible, you never know what's going to happen.

You gotta be able to change worlds.