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Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941) is an American folk and rock singer-songwriter, born in Duluth, Minnesota. In 2016 Dylan received the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition".
United States Guitarists Nobel laureates Poets Singer-songwriters Also known as: Dylan, Bob, Slow Train (Bob Dylan song)
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I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Interview published with the Biograph album set (1985)
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around — the music and the ideas.
Morality has nothing in common with politics.
Chronicles: Vol. One (2004)
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.
You can't be wise and in love at the same time.
No Direction Home (2005)
The cost of liberty is high, and young people should understand that before they start spending their life with all those gadgets.
We may not be able to defeat these swine, but we don't have to join them.
Kingdom of Fear (2003)
Love is all there is, it makes the world go round.
There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground.
Opportunities may come along for you to convert something—something that exists into something that didn't yet.
Chronicles: Vol. One (2004)
I'd come from a long ways off and had started from a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else.
Chronicles: Vol. One (2004)
A man is successful if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night, and in between does what he likes.
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man?
Don't follow leaders, watch your parkin' meters.
If you take whatever there is to the song away—the beat, the melody—I could still recite it.
An artist has gotta be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he's at somewhere. You always have to realize that you're constantly in a state of becoming.
No Direction Home (2005)
When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose. You're invisible now. You've got no secrets to conceal.
Wheels on fire, rolling down the road, best notify my next of kin, this wheel shall explode!
It may be the Devil or it may be the Lord, but you're gonna have to serve somebody.
How many seas must a white dove sail before she sleeps in the sand?
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