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
If God is on our side, he'll stop the next war.
In the home of the brave, Jefferson turning over in his grave.
Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition, but the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency.
Maybe someday you will understand, that something for nothing is everybody's plan.
On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game.
Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.
Sing your praise of progress and the doom machine, the naked truth is still taboo whenever it can be seen.
Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws.
The cavalries charged and the Indians died, oh the country was young with God on its side.
How can the life of such a man be in the palm of some fools hand?
Freedom just around the corner for you, but with the truth so far off, what good will it do?
Come Senators, Congressman, please heed the call, don't stand in the doorway, don't block the hall.
Mama, put my guns in the ground, I can't shoot them anymore. That long black cloud is coming down.
Mothers tell your children not to do the things I have done, to spend my life in sin and misery in the House of the Rising Sun.