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
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Rank
#313

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"Opportunities may come along for you to convert something -something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning of it. Sometimes you just want to do things your way, want to see for yourself what lies behind the misty curtain. It's not like you see songs approaching and invite them in. It's not that easy. You want to write songs that are bigger than life. You want to say something about strange things that have happened to you, strange things you have seen. You have to know and understand something and then go past the vernacular."

Song Lying Writing
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"I'm looking for a woman who's head is mixed up like mine."

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"New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice."

New York Cities Frozen
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"You want to know about creativity? Just go out and buy that book Imagine by Jonah Lehrer. It's only $29.00 in hardcover."

Book Creativity Want
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"Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I've got nothing, Ma, to live up to."

Wise Men Fool
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"She speaks with a stutter and she and she walks with a hop. I don't know why I love her, but I just can't stop."

Quality Speak Hops
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"I'll be selling tickets for my next tour exclusively through Jonah Lehrer. Make sure to pay cash."

Cash Pay Next
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"You have to look at every one of your songs and be able to identify with them in a meaningful way. You can hardly sing your songs unless you're in them. If you want to fake it, go ahead. Fake it if you want. But I'm not that kind of singer."

Meaningful Song Fake
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"Having hits buries a singer in the past. A lot of singers hide in the past because it's safer back there. If you've ever heard today's country music, you'll know what I'm talking about."

Country Past Talking
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"How does it feel, how does it feel to be without a home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone."

Travel Home Rolling
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"You're gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you're gonna have to serve somebody."

Devil May Lord
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"She can play my guitar note for note, she likes to stick her tongue down my throat."

Guitar Play Quality
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"As long as you give my friend Jonah Lehrer a free pizza, I'll write a song about your restaurant."

Song Writing Long
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"If you're not busy being born, you're busy dying."

Dying Comfort Busy
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"The tree of life is growing where the spirit never dies, and the bright light of salvation shines in dark and empty skies."

Philosophy Dark Light
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"When I was growing up - say in the fifties - the thirties to me didn't even exist. I couldn't even imagine them in any kind of way, so I don't expect anyone growing up now is gonna even understand what the sixties were all about, anymore than I could the thirties or twenties."

Growing Up Twenties Way
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"I have always believed that fame is a curse. I never envied one of the famous people I've known."

People Fame Curse
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"...don't criticize what you can't understand, your sons and your daughters are beyond your command."

Daughter Son Criticism
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"I don't usually purge myself by writing anything about any type of quote, so-called, relationships."

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"The first thing I know, I'm in a card game. Then I'm in a crap game."

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