Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylanis an American singer-songwriter, artist and writer. He has been influential in popular music and culture for more than five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when his songs chronicled social unrest, although Dylan repudiated suggestions from journalists that he was a spokesman for his generation. Nevertheless, early songs such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'" became anthems for the American civil rights and anti-war movements. After he left...
ProfessionFolk Singer
Date of Birth24 May 1941
CityDuluth, MN
I'm speaking for all of us. I'm the spokesman for a generation.
The hollow horn plays wasted words, proves to warn that he not busy being born is busy dying.
You always got to be prepared but you never know for what.
There doesn't seem to be any tomorrow. Every time I wake up, no matter in what position, it's always been today.
I really didn't consider myself happy or unhappy.
A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.
Well, the moral of the story, The moral of this song, Is simply that one should never be Where one does not belong. So when you see your neighbor carryin' somethin', Help him with his load, And don't go mistaking Paradise For that home across the road.
I'm more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.
The times are a-changing and if we don't we will sink like a stone.
I like Fidel Castro and his beard.
A song is like a dream, and you try to make it come true. They're like strange countries that you have to enter.
In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile and the rest of us are f--ed until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. We owe that to ourselves and our crippled self-image as something better than a nation of panicked sheep.
It's not easy to define poetry.
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken, I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children, And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.