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
People think that singing and playing is easy. It's not. It's easy to strum along, but if you actually want to really play, where it's important, that's a hard thing and not too many people are good at it.
Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.
Silvio, I gotta go, find out something only dead men know.
Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us.
I'll always thank the Lord when my working day is through, I get my sweet reward to be alone with you.
Everything in New Orleans is a good idea. Bijou temple-type cottages and lyric cathedrals side by side. Houses and mansions, structures of wild grace. Italianate, Gothic, Romanesque, Greek Revival standing in a long line in the rain. Roman Catholic art. Sweeping front porches, turrets, cast-iron balconies, colonnades- 30-foot columns, gloriously beautiful- double pitched roofs, all the architecture of the whole wide world and it doesn't move.
I’m in awe of McCartney. He’s about the only one that I am in awe of. He can do it all. And he’s never let up... He’s just so damn effortless.
With great lawyers you have discussed lepers and crooks, you've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books.
Michelangelo indeed could have carved out your features.
Money doesn't exist because I don't recognize it.
I was never a topical songwriter.
Everything that I'm saying You can say it just as good
You can't be happy by doing something groovy.
You're gonna have to serve somebody.