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
I’m in awe of McCartney. He’s about the only one that I am in awe of. He can do it all. And he’s never let up... He’s just so damn effortless.
I'm used to writing songs and songs-I can fill em up with symbolism and metaphors. When you write a book (Chronicles, Vol. 1), you gotta tell the truth, and it can't be misinterpreted.
And I'll know my song well before I start singing
We never thought we could ever get old.
The woman I love she got a prize fighter nose, cauliflower ears and a run in her hose.
With great lawyers you have discussed lepers and crooks, you've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books.
Well the book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers.
Mama's in the factory, she ain't got no shoes. Daddy's in the alley, he's looking for food.
Michelangelo indeed could have carved out your features.
I'm looking for a woman who's head is mixed up like mine.
For whose sake did you live, for whose sake did you die? Forgive me, baby, for what I didn't do.
Broken bottles, broken plates, broken switches, broken gates. Broken dishes, broken parts, streets are filled with broken hearts.
If ever asked to look at yourself, don't.
Some things are too terrible to be true.