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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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How does it feel, how does it feel?
Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem.
I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet. Anybody who could possibly call himself a poet just cannot be a poet.
Robert Shelton's No Direction Home (1986)
I didn't really have any ambition at all. I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be, and so, I'm on my way home, you know?
No Direction Home (2005)
You don't need my autograph. If you needed it, I'd give it to you.
No Direction Home (2005)
I didn't go to classes. I just didn't feel like it.
No Direction Home (2005)
It's peculiar and unnerving in a way to see so many young people walking around with cellphones and iPods in their ears and so wrapped up in media and video games. It robs them of their self-identity.
And you never ask questions/When God’s on your side /If God’s on our side/They’ll stop the next war
And if my thought-dreams could be seen, they'd probably put my head in a guillotine.
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.
Time is a jetplane — it moves too fast. Oh but what a shame that all we've shared can't last...
We shouldn't confuse singers and performers with actors.
If your time to you is worth savin’
Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.
Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind.
If God’s on our side/They’ll stop the next war
Greed and lust I can understand, but I can't understand the values of definition and confinement. Definition destroys. Besides, there's nothing definite in this world.
What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not threatening—all bunk. No guarantees of anything, not even the guarantee that life isn't one big joke.
Chronicles: Vol. One (2004)
I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.
He not busy being born is busy dying.
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