“Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.”
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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“Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.”
“I kinda live where I find myself.”
“Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere.”
“My range is limited.”
“Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.”
“I'm mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it's the only place where I'm happy.”
“I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.”
“A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.”
“But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.”
“What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.”
“People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.”
“I'm not a playwright.”
“I can't see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That's terrible.”
“Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.”
“I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.”
“I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.”
“I'm speaking for all of us. I'm the spokesman for a generation.”
“It's hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.”
“There is nothing so stable as change.”
“Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.”