Bob Dylan (b.1941) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, artist, and writer. He has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly reluctant figurehead of social unrest. A number of Dylan’s early 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. Leaving behind his initial base in the culture of the folk music revival, Dylan’s six-minute single “Like a Rolling Stone” radically altered the parameters of popular music in 1965. His recordings employing electric instruments attracted denunciation and criticism from others in the folk movement.
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If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.
—Bob Dylan
Topics: Memory, Living
Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.
—Bob Dylan
What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
—Bob Dylan
Topics: Success & Failure, Money, Success, Men
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with their freedom.
—Bob Dylan
Topics: Heroes, Heroes/Heroism
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