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 stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed... so drastically, I couldn't believe it myself.
You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.
May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung.
I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.
In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
Call me any name you like I will never deny it.
Look out your window, and I'll be gone. You're the reason I'm a-traveling on...
When I was growing up - say in the fifties - the thirties to me didn't even exist. I couldn't even imagine them in any kind of way, so I don't expect anyone growing up now is gonna even understand what the sixties were all about, anymore than I could the thirties or twenties.
Time is an ocean, but it ends at the shore.
You five and ten cent women with nothing in your heads, I got a real gal I'm loving and Lord I'll love her 'til I'm dead.
You will find God in the church of your choice.
The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handle
...you could listen to Woody Guthrie songs and actually learn how to live ...