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
There's beauty in the silver singing river There's beauty in the sunrise in the sky But none of these and nothing else can match the beauty That I remember in my true love's eyes
I just don't hear anyone else making the music I'm making in my head, so I'll have to do it myself.
Your mind is a your temple, keep it beautiful and free. Don't let an egg get laid in it by something you can't see.
People do whatever they want to do, y'know.
Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
Life has its ups and downs, and time has to be your partner. Really, time is your soul mate.
Bob Dylan wrote in his elliptical memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, he was washed up in the 1980s, no longer a commercial success, and no longer putting out good work.
Everything passes, Everything changes, Just do what you think you should do.
Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.
It was [meeting with Nicolas Sarkozy] like looking at my mirror image.
This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.
What drives me to you, drives me insane.
I've been sitting down studying the Art of Love. I think it will fit me like a glove.
I never wanted to be a prophet or a saviour. Elvis maybe