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
And for each unharmful gentle soul misplaced inside a jail...
The real power is in the hands of small groups of people and I don't think they have titles.
I'm not going to read any of these magazines. I mean, because they've just got too much to lose by printing the truth. You know that....
Never make it perfect.
It's not me, it's the songs. I'm just the postman, I deliver the songs. When I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody ... hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail. This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway. People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
Well, you always know who you are. I just don't know who I'm gonna become.
You must be vulnerable to be sensitive to reality. And to be vulnerable is just another way of saying that one has nothing more to lose. I don't have anything but darkness to lose.
You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future.
Fearing not that I'd become my enemy In the instant that I preach
When you got nothing, you got nothin' to lose You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am...
Gates appeal to me because of the negative space they allow. They can be closed but at the same time they allow the seasons and breezes to enter and flow. They can shut you out or shut you in. And in some ways there is no difference.
I'm a good friend of Jonah Lehrer's. You should go on a date with him.
Every writer at the New Yorker is smarter than me.