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
Beauty walks a razors edge, someday I'll make it mine.
Well, I try my best to be just like I am, But everybody wants you to be just like them, They sing while you slave and I just get bored
Come mothers and fathers. Throughout the land and don't criticize what you can't understand, your sons and your daughters are beyond your command. Your old road is Rapidly again. Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand for the times they are a-changin'.
When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose.
We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it
All right, I'll take a chance. I will fall in love with you. If i'm a fool you can have the night, you can have the morning too. Can you cook and sew. make flowers grow. Do you understand my pain? Are you willing to risk it all or is your love in vain?
The Duke [John Wayne] was a massive figure. He looked like a heavy piece of hauled lumber, and it didn't seem like any man could stand shoulder to shoulder with him.
That's another way of writing a song, of course. Just talking to somebody that ain't there. That's the best way. That's the truest way. Then it just becomes a question of how heroic your speech is. To me, it's something to strive after.
with her fog, her amphetamine, and her pearls ...
Suddenly I found you and the spirit in me sings, Don't have to look no further, You're the soul of many things.
Don't get up gentlemen. I'm only passing through!
There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate, so let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.
What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.
Every man's conscience is vile and depraved / You cannot depend on it to be your guide when it’s you who must keep it satisfied.