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
It fell from a 10 story building and exploded in front of me.
You're basically putting it out through a corporation regardless . . . How you get it out is really immaterial.
A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
And the country I die for, has God on its side
Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!
A self-ordained professors tongue, too serious to fool ...
Everybody is even making love or else expecting rain
The beginning was there in Minnesota. But that was the beginning before the beginning. I don't know how I come to songs. I just go ahead and do it. I'm just sort of trying to find a place to pound my nails.
Blame it on a simple twist of fate.
The exploitation and superficiality of mainstream America is the object not of [Bob] Dylan's hipster scorn, but of an apocalyptic parable of holy fools and righteous thieves - the kind of imagery that Dylan's later work would explore more fully.
It was [meeting with Nicolas Sarkozy] like looking at my mirror image.
Businessmen they drink my wine, Plowmen dig my earth, But none of them along the line, Know what any of it is worth
[Bob] Dylan crashed his motorcycle in 1967, and almost died. A few years ago, he referred to the experience as a "transfiguration."
There would be brilliant songs, but, as [Bob] Dylan admitted on the recent Martin Scorsese documentary about him (No Direction Home), the specific muse that inspired "It's Alright Ma" would not return.