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
Ain't no use jiving, ain't no use joking, everything is broken.
You got men who can't hold peace and women who can't control their tongues. The rich seduce the poor, and the old seduce the young.
The rifleman's stalking the sick and the lame, preacherman seeks the same, who'll get there first is uncertain.
My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip, my toes to numb to step, wait only for my boot heels to be wandering.
Mama's in the factory, she ain't got no shoes. Daddy's in the alley, he's looking for food.
Broken bottles, broken plates, broken switches, broken gates. Broken dishes, broken parts, streets are filled with broken hearts.
Reality has always had too many heads.
You must be vulnerable to be sensitive to reality. And to be vulnerable is just another way of saying that one has nothing more to lose. I don't have anything but darkness to lose.
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