“No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.”
Author detail
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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“No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.”
“When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?”
“If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.”
“A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.”
“A lot of people don't like the road, but it's as natural to me as breathing.”
“Folk music is a bunch of fat people.”
“Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.”
“In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.”
“My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was...”
“I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something.”
“In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.”
“Chaos is a friend of mine.”
“The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.”
“I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.”
“Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.”
“A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.”
“Some formulas are too complex and I don't want anything to do with them.”
“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 theres some kind of change.”
“People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.”
“I'm sick of giving creeps money off my soul.”