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
Steal a little, and they put you in jail. Steal a lot, and they make you king.
You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.
Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through.
He not busy being born is busy dying.
I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.
There is nothing so stable as change.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure
No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.
If you need somebody you can trust, trust yourself
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist, and 'load every rift' of your subject with ore.
I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's.
Creativity has a lot to do with the main idea. Inspiration is what comes when you are dealing with the idea. But inspiration won't invite what's not there to begin with.