Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

Singer-songwriter

Bob Dylan is an iconic American singer-songwriter known for his profound lyrics that explore themes of freedom and identity, particularly in songs like 'Blowin' in the Wind'.

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Born
May 24, 1941
Quotes
872
Rank
#313

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"Folk songs are evasive-the truth about life, and life is more or less a lie, but then again that's exactly the way we want it to be. We wouldn't be comfortable with it any other way. A folk song has over a thousand faces and you must meet them all if you want to play this stuff. A folk song might vary in meaning and it might not appear the same from one moment to the next. It depends on who's playing and who's listening."

Song Lying Play
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"It is the first line that gives the inspiration and then it's like riding a bull. Either you just stick with it, or you don't."

Inspiration Writing Giving
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"They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs, or their wives."

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"Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now."

Mainstream Culture Sound Looks
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"I'll stand over your grave 'til I'm sure that you're dead."

Death Over You Graves
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"After a while you earn that privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back."

Privacy Sells
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"I want to use songs that everybody knows or thinks they know. I want to show them a different side of it and open up that world in a more unique way. You have to believe what the words are saying and the words are as important as the melody. Unless you believe the song and have lived it, there's little sense in performing it. I never wanted to be a singer that"

Song Believe Unique
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"It's like my whole life never happened, When I see you, it's as if I never had a thought. I know this dream, it might be crazy, But it's the only one I've got."

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"I march in the parade of liberty But as long as I love you I’m not free How long must I suffer such abuse Won’t you let me see you smile one time before I turn you loose?"

Love You Long Abuse
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"Really the truth is just a plain picture. A plain picture of, let's say, a tramp vomiting in the sewere. You know, and next door to the picture Mr. Rockefeller or Mr. C. W. Jones on the subway going to work. You know, any kind of picture. Just make a collage of pictures."

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"In the fury of the moment/ I can see the Master's hand In every leaf that trembles, in/ every grain of sand."

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"I once loved a girl, her skin it was bronze With the innocence of a lamb, she was gentle like a fawn I courted her proudly but now she is gone Gone as the season she's taken"

Girl Taken Skins
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"Whatever that ["transfiguration" by Bob Dylan] means, it's true that the poetic brilliance of the early career would never really reappear."

Mean Careers Bob
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"When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud, I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form."

Evil Mud Void
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"I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's."

Changed Changed My Life
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"A song is anything that can walk by itself."

Music Song Walks
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"I gaze into the doorway of temptation's angry flame And every time I pass that way I always hear my name"

Flames Names Temptation
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