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
Don't criticize what you can't understand.
They like to take all this money from sin, build big universities to study in, sing Amazing Grace all the way to the Swiss banks.
People tell me it's a sin, to know and feel too much within.
Nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street.
As I stepped to the stage to pick up my degree, and the locusts sang off in the distance.
My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect.
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.
Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!
Blame it on a simple twist of fate.
Most kids have no faith in record labels anymore anyway,
I wish that for just one time / you could stand inside my shoes / and just for that one moment / I could be you. / Yes, I wish that for just one time / You could stand inside my shoes / You'd know what a drag it is / to see you.
It fell from a 10 story building and exploded in front of me.
I think he's one of the greatest songwriters of all time,'' Parton says.
Johnny was and is the North Star. You could guide your ship by him.