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
Take me disappearing, through the smoke rings of my mind, down the foggy ruins of time...
Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.
Well, I don't know, but I've been told the streets in heaven are lined with gold. I ask you how things could get much worse if the Russians happen to get up there first; Wowee! pretty scary!
Art can lead you to God. I think that's the purpose of everything. If it's not doing that, what's it doing? It's leading you the other way. It's certainly not leading you nowhere.
Whatever colors you have in your mind, I'll show them to you and you'll see them shine.
You better start swimming, or you'll sink like a stone. Because the Time's they are a-changing.
Walkin' through the leaves fallin' from the trees, Feelin' like a stranger nobody sees...
your problem is that wanna better word for world
I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you've been up on the mountain, now you go down. You're on your own, free. Check in later, but now you're on your own.
You're better than no one and no one is better than you.
Sometimes the silence can be like thunder.
A lot of people don't have much food on their table. But they got a lot of forks 'n knives. And they got to cut somethin'.
My big fear was that my guitar would go out of tune.
Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind.