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
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.
The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.
Done laid around, done stayed around This old town too long And it seems like I've got to travel on
When you got nothin' / You got nothin' to lose.
Why wait any longer for the one you love When he’s standing in front of you
She knows there's no success like failure, and that failure's no success at all.
I'm mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it's the only place where I'm happy.
I never saw myself as a folk singer.
I don't think I'm tangible to myself.
What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.
I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.