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
Last night I danced with a stranger, but she just reminded me you were the one.
Nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street.
I practice a faith that's been long abandoned Ain't no altars on this long and lonesome road
I don't really have a retirement plan.
Gates appeal to me because of the negative space they allow. They can be closed but at the same time they allow the seasons and breezes to enter and flow. They can shut you out or shut you in. And in some ways there is no difference.
The real power is in the hands of small groups of people and I don't think they have titles.
Her profession's her religion, her sin is lifelessness.
They kill people here who stand up for their rights The system's just too damned corrupt It's always the same, the name of the game Is who do you know higher up
How many roads must a man walk down Before your can call him a man? . . . The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind.
Uncle fought in Vietnam and then he fought a war all by himself.
Wiggle 'til you're high, wiggle 'til you're higher, wiggle 'til you vomit fire.
I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans.
In another lifetime she must have owned the world, or been faithfully wed to some righteous king who wrote psalms beside moonlit streams.
One who sings with his tongue on fire, gargles in the rat race choir.