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
Everything passes, Everything changes, Just do what you think you should do.
Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.
If you need somebody you can trust, trust yourself
I just don't hear anyone else making the music I'm making in my head, so I'll have to do it myself.
People disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book.
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Some times I think this whole world Is one big prison yeard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards
You don't write a song to sit there on a page. You write it to sing it.
Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.
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 like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.
When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks.
I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.
I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's.