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
Most songs have bridges in them, to distract listeners from the main verses of a song so they don't get bored. My songs don't have a lot of bridges because lyric poetry never had them.
Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.
Madonna, she still has not showed, we see this empty cage now corrode, where her cape of the stage once had flowed, the fiddler he now steps to the road, on the back of the fish truck that loads, while my conscience explodes.
A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.
You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist, and 'load every rift' of your subject with ore.
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!