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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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Your debutante knows what you need, but I know what you want.
The future for me is already a thing of the past.
Inside the museums, infinity goes up on trial.
To live outside the law, you must be honest.
I had very little in common with and knew even less about a generation that I was supposed to be the voice of.
Chronicles: Vol. One (2004)
Colleges are like old-age homes; except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's.
My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.
May you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung. May your song always be sung, May you stay forever young.
In the fury of the moment
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
If the songs are dreamed, it's like my voice is coming out of their dream.
Robert Shelton's No Direction Home (1986)
You have to be let alone to really accomplish anything.
I'm a '60s troubadour, a folk-rock relic, a wordsmith from bygone days, a fictitious head of state from a place nobody knows. I'm in the bottomless pit of cultural oblivion.
Chronicles: Vol. One (2004)
You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.
Bob Dylan Interview by Nora Ephron & Susan Edmiston (1965)
How does it feel
May you grow up to be righteous
I think women rule the world, and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn't allowed him to do or encouraged him to do.
Don't ask me nothin' about nothin'. I just might tell you the truth.
a poem is a naked person . . . some people say that I am a poet
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