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
All the friends I ever had are gone.
There used to be a time when the idea of heroes was important. People grew up sharing those myths and legends and ideals. Now they grow up sharing McDonalds and Disneyland.
I ain't looking to compete with you, beat, or cheat, or mistreat you, simplify you, classify you, deny, defy, or crucify you. All I really want to do is, baby, be friends with you.
I believe in you, even though I be outnumbered.
I'm inconsistent, even to myself.
I am a restless soul hungry perhaps wretched.
I think I have a dualistic nature.
It ain't my cup of meat.
Like the lion tears the flesh off a man, so can a woman who passes herself off as a male.
I gotta friend who spends his life, stabbing my picture with a bowie knife. Dreams of strangling me with a scarf, when my name comes up he pretends to barf.
When the jelly faced women all sneeze, hear the one with the mustache say I can't find my knees.
It rubs me the wrong way, a camera... It's a frightening thing...Cameras make ghosts out of people.
Can't keep track of it no more, son's becoming husbands to their mothers, and old men turning your daughters into whores.
I never read Freud. I've never been attracted to anything he has said, and I think he's started a lot of nonsense with psychiatry and that business. I don't think psychiatry can help or has helped anybody. I think it's a big fraud (pun not intended) on the public.