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
A record ... is a statement, it's its own statement, its own entity, rather than being about something else. If I was a painter ... I don't paint the chair, I would paint feelings about the chair.
keep a clean nose, watch the plain-clothes.
Well I'm living in a foreign country but I'm bound to cross the line. Beauty walks a razor's edge...someday I'll make it mine.
You don't count the dead, when god's on your side.
As long as you give my friend Jonah Lehrer a free pizza, I'll write a song about your restaurant.
I'll be selling tickets for my next tour exclusively through Jonah Lehrer. Make sure to pay cash.
You want to know about creativity? Just go out and buy that book Imagine by Jonah Lehrer. It's only $29.00 in hardcover.
Truth is like a waterslide-only fun when it's slippery and wet.
Even I don't know what I'm saying most of the time.
All these people that I used to know, they're an illusion to me now. Some are mathematicians, some are carpenters' wives.
The highlight of my career? That's easy, Elvis recording one of my songs.
Folk songs are evasive-the truth about life, and life is more or less a lie, but then again that's exactly the way we want it to be. We wouldn't be comfortable with it any other way. A folk song has over a thousand faces and you must meet them all if you want to play this stuff. A folk song might vary in meaning and it might not appear the same from one moment to the next. It depends on who's playing and who's listening.
People don't live or die, people just float.
Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.