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
I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.
There's beauty in the silver singing river There's beauty in the sunrise in the sky But none of these and nothing else can match the beauty That I remember in my true love's eyes
There is nothing so stable as change.
I just don't hear anyone else making the music I'm making in my head, so I'll have to do it myself.
He not busy being born is busy dying.
Creativity has a lot to do with the main idea. Inspiration is what comes when you are dealing with the idea. But inspiration won't invite what's not there to begin with.
Your mind is a your temple, keep it beautiful and free. Don't let an egg get laid in it by something you can't see.
An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he's AT somewhere. You always have to realize that you're constantly in a state of becoming. And, as long as you can stay in that realm you'll sort of be alright.
People do whatever they want to do, y'know.
Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.
Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
Life has its ups and downs, and time has to be your partner. Really, time is your soul mate.
Bob Dylan wrote in his elliptical memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, he was washed up in the 1980s, no longer a commercial success, and no longer putting out good work.
Everything passes, Everything changes, Just do what you think you should do.