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
Silvio, I gotta go, find out something only dead men know.
You had no faith to lose and you know it.
i've forgotten more than you'll ever know
How many deaths will it take 'till we know that too many people have died?
You always got to be prepared but you never know for what.
She knows there's no success like failure, and that failure's no success at all.
Well, you always know who you are. I just don't know who I'm gonna become.
I put one on the turntable and when the needle dropped, I was stunned - didn't know whether I was stoned or straight.
Even I don't know what I'm saying most of the time.
God knows there's a heaven.
You have to work out where your place is. And who you are. But we're all spirit. That's all we are, we're just walking dressed up in a suit of skin, and we're going to leave that behind.
Once you think you know the song, then you have go and see how other people have done it.
A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness.
I can picture the color of the song, or the shape of it, or who it is that I'm trying to appeal to, in the song, and what I'm trying to, almost, reinforce my feelings for. And I know that sounds sort of vague and abstract, but I've got a handle on it when I'm doing it.