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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".
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Loneliness
The people in my songs are all me.
The enemy is subtle, how be it we're deceived? When the truth's in our hearts and we still don't believe?
It's not to anybody's best interest to think about how they will be perceived tomorrow. It hurts you in the long run.
Bob Dylan: The Song Talk Interview by Paul Zollo (1991)
That ear - I mean, Jesus, he's got to will that to the Smithsonian.
Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me.
I'm inconsistent, even to myself.
Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for anyone but inspire them?
Who cares about the character? Just get up and act. You don't have to explain it to me.
Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow...that it passes through
I don't believe you! You're a liar! ... Play it fucking loud!
I used to think that myself and my songs were the same thing. But I don't believe that any more. There's myself and there's my song, which I hope is everybody's song.
I kinda live where I find myself.
how many ears must one man have/Before he can hear people cry?/The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul [Minnesota] in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language.
Not once have I ever had the time to ask myself, "Are my songs literature?" So, I do thank the Swedish Academy, both for taking the time to consider that very question, and, ultimately, for providing such a wonderful answer.
Chaos is a friend of mine.
I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else. I don't know who I am most of the time. It doesn't even matter to me.
Flashing for the warriors whose strength is not to fight,
Come you masters of war,/You that build all the guns,/You that build the death planes,/You that build the big bombs,/You that hide behind walls,/You that hide behind desks,/I just want you to know,/I can see through your masks.
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