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
To preach of peace and brotherhood, oh what might be the cost? A man he did it long ago, and they hung him on a cross.
There are no truths outside the Gates of Eden.
I said, you know they refused Jesus, too. He said, you're not him.
I don't need your organization, I've moved your mountains and I've marked you cards, but Eden is burning. You better get ready for elimination or else your hearts must have the courage of the changing of the guard.
I bargained for salvation and they gave me a lethal dose.
God is in heaven, and we all want what's his. But power and greed and corruptible seed seem to be all that there is.
God got the power, man has got his vanity. Man gotta choose before God can set him free.
Abe said, where do you want this killing done? God said, out on highway 61.
In the fury of the moment/ I can see the Master's hand In every leaf that trembles, in/ every grain of sand.
Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.
The "joker" here ["All Along the Watchtower" ] is the older [Bob] Dylan himself, whining about exploitation, and the thief's rejoinder re-contextualizes the earlier critique into the religious frames that would become more prominent as time went on.
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,