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
I come from way north. We'd listen to radio shows all the time. I think I was the last generation, or pretty close to the last one, that grew up without TV.
Whenever anybody does something in a big way, it's always rejected at home and accepted someplace else.
I was lookin' high an' low for them Reds everywhere, I was lookin' in the sink an' underneath the chair. I looked way up my chimney hole, I even looked deep inside my toilet bowl.
Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.
My favorite politician was Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, who reminded me of Tom Mix, and there wasn't any way to explain that to anybody.
I was born a long way from where I belong and I am on my way home.
You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.
If you can't lend a hand, then get out of the way.
Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles.
They like to take all this money from sin, build big universities to study in, sing Amazing Grace all the way to the Swiss banks.
I had ambitions to set out and find, like an odyssey or going home somewhere... set out to find... this home that I'd left a while back and couldn't remember exactly where it was, but I was on my way there. And encountering what I encountered on the way was how I envisioned it all. I didn't really have any ambition at all. I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be, and so, I'm on my way home, you know?
Gates appeal to me because of the negative space they allow. They can be closed but at the same time they allow the seasons and breezes to enter and flow. They can shut you out or shut you in. And in some ways there is no difference.
You know what they say about bein' nice to the right people on the way up Sooner or later you gonna meet them comin' down
It rubs me the wrong way, a camera... It's a frightening thing...Cameras make ghosts out of people.