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
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.
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.
Ah, current music. What would that be? Ah, really, a lot of it sounds defective to me. It makes me restless.
Heard ten thousand whispering and nobody listening. Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughing. Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter.
Steal a little, and they put you in jail. Steal a lot, and they make you king.
Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.
It was [meeting with Nicolas Sarkozy] like looking at my mirror image.
Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through.
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.
What drives me to you, drives me insane.