Bob Dylan Quotes

Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.

In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process.

Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.

The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.

Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss.

Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.

I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true.

We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.

But obviously, things have changed in many ways since the '50s, when the show is started, in terms of sexuality, and how much access we have to images of it and information about it. But, the same problems always apply. It doesn't matter whether we know a lot more about sex now or if there's a lot more access to it. The same problems of intimacy, of dealing with other people, of connecting and being vulnerable with other people, which is what the show is ultimately about, still applies now, I think.

An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.

People take sex far too seriously.

I love this word decadence, all shimmering in purple and gold. It suggests the subtle thoughts of ultimate civilization, a high literary culture, a soul capable of intense pleasures. It throws off bursts of fire and the sparkle of precious stones. It is redolent of the rouge of courtesans, the games of the circus, the panting of the gladiators, the spring of wild beasts, the consuming in flames of races exhausted by their capacity for sensation, as the tramp of an invading army sounds.

Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion.

And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

The vast majority of us don't want to face the fact that we're in the middle of a sweeping social revolution. In sex. In spiritual values. In opposition to wars no one wants. In opposition to government big-brotherhood. In civil rights. In basic human goals. They're all facets of a general upheaval.

I like extravagance. Letters which give the postman a stiff back to carry, books which overflow from their covers, sexuality which bursts the thermometers.

We do not understand these Americans who, like adolescents, always speak of sex, and who, like adolescents, all of a sudden have discovered that sex is good not only for procreating children.

Naturally, grown-up citizens are concerned about the beatniks and delinquents. ... The question is why the grownups do not, more soberly, draw the same conclusions as the youth. Or, since no doubt many people are quite clear about the connection that the structure of society that has becoming increasingly dominant in our country is disastrous to the growth of excellence and manliness, why don't more people speak up and say so?

Las Vegas is Everymans cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter and over it a sign proclaiming in three words that a Roman emperors orgy is now a democratic institution. 'Topless Pizza Lunch'.

To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century.

Political correctness has changed everything. People forget that political correctness used to be called spastic gay talk.

If you must get in trouble, do it at the Chateau Marmont.

I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.

I think that women find their strength and power in their sexuality, in their sensuality within, [through] getting older and being secure within that.

The more sex becomes a non-issue in people's lives, the happier they are.