“The highest purpose of art is to inspire.”
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Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman; May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and musician who has been a major figure in music since the 1960s. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler, and an apparently reluctant figurehead of social unrest. A number of his songs such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'" became anthems for the US civil rights and anti-war movements. His early lyrics incorporated a variety of political, social and philosophical, as well as literary influences. They defied existing pop music conventions and appealed hugely to the then burgeoning counterculture. Initially inspired by the songs of Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, Hank Williams, and the performance style of Little Richard, Dylan has both amplified and personalized musical genres, exploring numerous distinct traditions in American song—from folk, blues and country to gospel, rock and roll, and rockabilly, to English, Scottish, and Irish folk music, embracing even jazz and swing. ([Source][1]) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan
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“The highest purpose of art is to inspire.”
“Ah, but I was so much older then I’m younger than that now”
“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.”
“Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you'd like to act.”
“I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change.”
“Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, t...”
“I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.”
“Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way.”
“All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.”
“I'm more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.”
“Nothing can affect my voice, it's so bad.”
“I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come.”
“You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hear...”
“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.”
“You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we're just going to be gone. The world's going to go on without us. All ri...”
“This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.”
“Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.”
“What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.”
“You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.”
“What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”