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
Too much of nothing, it just makes a fellow mean.
I never could guess your weight, baby.
To preach of peace and brotherhood, oh what might be the cost? A man he did it long ago, and they hung him on a cross.
There are no truths outside the Gates of Eden.
I said, you know they refused Jesus, too. He said, you're not him.
I don't need your organization, I've moved your mountains and I've marked you cards, but Eden is burning. You better get ready for elimination or else your hearts must have the courage of the changing of the guard.
I bargained for salvation and they gave me a lethal dose.
God is in heaven, and we all want what's his. But power and greed and corruptible seed seem to be all that there is.
God got the power, man has got his vanity. Man gotta choose before God can set him free.
Every cause that ever I fought, I fought it full without regret or shame.
Good and bad, I define these terms, quite clear, no doubt, somehow.
I can't see my reflection in the waters, I can't speak the sounds that show no pain. I can't hear the echo of my footsteps, or can't remember the sound of my own name.
I'll always thank the Lord when my working day is through, I get my sweet reward to be alone with you.
If I had the stars from the darkest night and the diamonds from the deepest ocean, I'd forsake them all for your sweet kiss, for that's all I'm wishin' to be ownin'.