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 speaking for all of us. I'm the spokesman for a generation.
I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.
I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.
You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we're just going to be gone. The world's going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.
Money doesn't talk, it swears.
When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?
Nothing can affect my voice, it's so bad.
I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon.
I really didn't consider myself happy or unhappy.
A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.
I'm more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.
I can't stand to see myself on television.
I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.
What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.