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 said, you know they refused Jesus, too. He said, you're not him.
Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I'm not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I've never thought about that before! He said, When you're not following me, you're resisting me.
After becoming famous once again - a 1976 song, "Hurricane," even marked a return to protest songwriting - [Bob] Dylan got addicted to drugs, found Jesus, left Jesus, and put out a lot of swill.
Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.
Jesus, that ear. He should donate it to The Smithsonian. Brian Wilson, he made all his records with four tracks, but you couldn't make his records if you had a hundred tracks today.
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!