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'.

Born
May 24, 1941
Quotes
872
Rank
#313

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"In harmony with cosmic sea, true love needs no company. It can cure the soul, it can make it whole, if dogs run free."

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"There's danger in this open world where men strive to be free, and to me the greatest danger was in society."

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"Everything that I'm saying You can say it just as good"

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"Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want (Bob Dylan's dad)"

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"Mothers tell your children not to do the things I have done, to spend my life in sin and misery in the House of the Rising Sun."

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"Fearing not that I'd become my enemy In the instant that I preach"

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"[In 1951] we were also told that the Russians could be parachuting from planes over our town at any time. These were the same Russians that my uncles had fought alongside only a few years earlier. Now they had become monsters who were coming to slit our throats and incinerate us. It seemed peculiar. Living under a cloud of fear like this robs a child of his spirit. It's one thing to be afraid when someone's holding a shotgun on you, but it's another thing to be afraid of something that's just not quite real."

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"Money doesn't exist because I don't recognize it."

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"I was never a topical songwriter."

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"Ah, current music. What would that be? Ah, really, a lot of it sounds defective to me. It makes me restless."

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"Just a reminder, if you tell anyone about what happened with Jonah last night, I'll destroy all of my writing and never play music again."

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"I thought that he was righteous, but he's vain. Oh, somethings a telling me I wear the ball and chain."

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"Good intentions can be evil, both hands are full of grease. You know, sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace."

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"And I’ll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it Then I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin’ But I’ll know my song well before I start singin"

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"Stay free of petty jealousies, live by no man's code, and hold your judgment for yourself, lest you wind up on this road."

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"Who am I helping, what am I breaking, what am I giving, what am I taking?"

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"An artist is always in the state of becoming."

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""Like a Rolling Stone" [of Bob Dylan] is a kiss-off song like none before or since."

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