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
People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young. Back then I guess most of my influences could be thought of as eccentric. Mass media had no overwhelming reach so I was drawn to the traveling performers passing through.
People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young.
Aretha with no goals, eternally single & one step soft of heaven/ let it be understood that she owns this melody along with her emotional diplomats & her earth & her musical secrets
The confessional singer-songwriter movement of the 1970s was in full swing, and Bob Dylan's emotional album [ Blood on the Tracks] resonated with the times. There would be other hits, but never the same alchemy of emotion and time.
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.
A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Blame it on a simple twist of fate.
Twenty years of schoolin' / And they put you on the day shift.
Some people have no hope, some people want to be like you, you know? Best to be yourself
A self-ordained professors tongue, too serious to fool ...
And the country I die for, has God on its side
Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!
You're basically putting it out through a corporation regardless . . . How you get it out is really immaterial.