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
Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that's going on right now in a big way.
Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.
I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.
You can't be happy by doing something groovy.
You just don't wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.
You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.
People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young.
I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.
I'm sick of giving creeps money off my soul.
A lot of people don't like the road, but it's as natural to me as breathing.
I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.
I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.
Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.
I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.