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
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.
Everybody is even making love or else expecting rain
The beginning was there in Minnesota. But that was the beginning before the beginning. I don't know how I come to songs. I just go ahead and do it. I'm just sort of trying to find a place to pound my nails.
It was relatively simple. Bob put himself in my hands. He just turned up - just his words on paper - no instruments, no musicians, no preconceptions. He just turned up on the doorstep and I built the studio. It's what I call a kitchen studio, so we played in the kitchen. I knew it would suit Bob because I knew Bob didn't have a lot of time for the studio. He didn't want people standing around scratching their heads, banging pianos or whatever. I sat down next to him, put a guitar in his hand and off we went.
It rubs me the wrong way, a camera... It's a frightening thing...Cameras make ghosts out of people.
Up on Housing Project Hill It's either fortune or fame You must pick one or the other Though neither of them are to be what they claim
You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows. Don't follow leaders watch the parkin' meters.
To bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
You know, you're on your brothers coat tails.
When asked what his songs were about: Some are about 10 minutes long, others are about 5 or 6.
Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools got nothing, Ma, to live up to.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
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