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 have always believed that fame is a curse. I never envied one of the famous people I've known.
I've been sitting down studying the Art of Love. I think it will fit me like a glove.
I never wanted to be a prophet or a saviour. Elvis maybe
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
They say everything can be replaced, Yet every distance is not near. So I remember every face Of every man who put me here. I see my light come shining From the west unto the east. Any day now, any day now, I shall be released.
I feel like falling in love with the first woman I meet, putting her in a wheel-barrow and wheeling her down the street.
Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.
If you need somebody you can trust, trust yourself
I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.
Bob has never written a bad song. Bob Dylan is a genius.
The purpose of music is to elevate the spirit and inspire. Not to help push some product down your throat. It puts you in tune with your own existence. Sometimes you really don't know how you feel, but really good music can define how you feel... someone who's telling me where he's been that I haven't and what it's like there - somebody whose life I can feel...
I was burned out from exhaustion, buried in the hail, poisoned in the bushes, blown out on the trail; hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the corn, "Come in," she said, "I'll give ya shelter from the storm."
I'd been going though his trash. He knocked me down. I was glad to see him, even though he was banging my head against the sidewalk. Afterwards these bums come over and say, 'Did he get much money?' I say, 'Money'? That was Bob Dylan.
It goes back to the destiny thing.I made a bargain with it, you know, a long time ago. And I'm holding up my end.