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
You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.
I hate myself for loving you and the weakness that it showed. You were just a painted face on a trip down to suicide road.
You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.
And I’ll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it Then I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin’ But I’ll know my song well before I start singin
How many times must a man look up, before he can see the sky?
If you don't believe there's a price for this sweet paradise, just remind me to show you the scars.
and if anybody asks me is it easy to forget I'll say it is easily done, you just pick anyone, and pretend that you never have met
And I hope that you die And your death'll come soon I will follow your casket In the pale afternoon And I'll watch while you're lowered Down to your deathbed And I'll stand o'er your grave 'Til I'm sure that you're dead
Everybody has their own idea of what's a poet. Robert Frost, President Johnson, T.S.Eliot, Rudolf Valentino - they're all poets. I like to think of myself as the one who carries the light bulb.
So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away, to the wild unknown country where I could not go wrong.
...don't criticize what you can't understand, your sons and your daughters are beyond your command.
Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I've got nothing, Ma, to live up to.
People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young.
Yesterday is just a memory.