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
...how many times must the cannon balls fly Before they're forever banned?
I'm not a folk-singer. I just sing a certain place.
You don't have to be afraid of looking into my face. We've done nothing to each other that time will not erase.
The radio makes hideous sounds.
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.
Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people, they're drinking, thinking that they got it made. Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things, but you'd better lift your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it, babe.
A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.
Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere.
I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible.
The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.
Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.
At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.
Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
Chaos is a friend of mine.