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
Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere.
I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible.
The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.
I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.
In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
Bob Dylan was again an entirely new person - this time old, craggy, cynical, and world-weary, as in "Not Dark Yet".
Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.
At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.
Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
Chaos is a friend of mine.
[Bob] Dylan's broken-heart songs are so much better. Like "Simple Twist of Fate".
I stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed... so drastically, I couldn't believe it myself.
The people in my songs are all me.
I hurt easy, I just don't show it. You can hurt someone and not even know it.