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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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“Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem.”
— Bob Dylan
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Quote source: Liner notes, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963)
“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.”
— Bob Dylan
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Quote source: "Only Human Driftin' And Learnin'" by Sidney Fields, New York Mirror (9 December 1963)
“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. And I'm trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politics. They has got nothing to do with it. I'm thinking about the general people and when they get hurt.”
— Bob Dylan
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Quote source: Address to the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee (13 December 1963)
“I am a writer an a singer of the words I write I am no speaker nor any politician an my songs speak for me because I write them in the confinement of my own mind an have t cope with no one except my own self.”
— Bob Dylan
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Quote source: Letter sent to the ECLC after Dylan received the Tom Paine Award at the Bill of Rights dinner on December 13, 1963, as reported in "Mr. Dylan Regrets" by Niall Stokes, Hot Press (11 November 2005)
“do Not create anything, it will be misinterpreted. it will not change. it will follow you the rest of your life.”
— Bob Dylan
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Quote source: "Advice for Geraldine on Her Miscellaneous" (1964)
“a poem is a naked person . . . some people say that I am a poet”
— Bob Dylan
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Quote source: Liner notes, Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
“He's a pinboy. He also wears suspenders. He's a real person. You know him, but not by that name... I saw him come into the room one night and he looked like a camel. He proceeded to put his eyes in his pocket. I asked this guy who he was and he said, "That's Mr. Jones." Then I asked this cat, "Doesn't he do anything but put his eyes in his pocket?" And he told me, "He puts his nose on the ground." It's all there, it's a true story.”
— Bob Dylan
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Quote source: When asked about the meaning of the song "Ballad of a Thin Man" during a 1965 interview.
“I don't call myself a poet because I don't like the word.”
— Bob Dylan
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Quote source: Bob Dylan Interview by Nora Ephron & Susan Edmiston (1965)
“I find it easy to write songs. I been writing songs for a long time and the words to the songs aren't written out just for the paper; they're written as you can read it, you dig. If you take whatever there is to the song away—the beat, the melody—I could still recite it. I see nothing wrong with songs you can't do that with either—songs that, if you took the beat and the melody away, they wouldn't stand up because they're not supposed to do that, you know. Songs are songs.”
— Bob Dylan
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Quote source: Interview with Paul Robbins (March, 1965)
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“Reporter: How many people who labor in the same musical vineyard in which you toil - how many are protest singers? That is, people who use their music, and use the songs to protest the, uh, social state in which we live today: the matter of war, the matter of crime, or whatever it might be. Bob Dylan: Um...how many? Reporter: Yes. How many? Bob Dylan: Uh, I think there's about, uh...136. Reporter: You say about 136, or you mean exactly 136? Bob Dylan: Uh, it's either 136 or 142.”
— Bob Dylan
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Quote source: Press conference in Los Angeles, California (17 December 1965), as seen and heard in No Direction Home.
“Bob Dylan: I do know what my songs are about. Playboy: And what's that? Bob Dylan: Oh, some are about four minutes; some are about five, and some, believe it or not, are about eleven or twelve.”
— Bob Dylan
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Quote source: Playboy Interview (February 1966)
“Colleges are like old-age homes; except for the fact that more people die in colleges.”
— Bob Dylan
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Quote source: Playboy Interview (February 1966)
“Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb.”
— Bob Dylan
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Quote source: Heard in the D. A. Pennebaker documentary Dont Look Back (1967)
“God, I'm glad I'm not me.”
— Bob Dylan
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Quote source: Said when reading a newspaper article about himself in Dont Look Back (1967)
“You have to be let alone to really accomplish anything.”
— Bob Dylan
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Quote source: Interview by Hubert Saal, "Dylan is Back," Newsweek (26 February 1968)
“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.”
— Bob Dylan
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Quote source: Interview by Hubert Saal, "Dylan is Back," Newsweek (26 February 1968)
“My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.”
— Bob Dylan
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Quote source: The Rolling Stone Interview: Bob Dylan (29 November 1969)
“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.”
— Bob Dylan
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Quote source: Neil Hickey TV Guide interview (11 September 1976)
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“I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.”
— Bob Dylan
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Quote source: Interview with Robert Shelton, Melody Maker (29 July 1978)
“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?”
— Bob Dylan
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Quote source: Bob Dylan: The Rolling Stone Interview by Jonathan Cott (26 January 1978)
“I kinda live where I find myself.”
— Bob Dylan
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Quote source: The Rolling Stone Interview: Bob Dylan (21 June 1984)
“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.”
— Bob Dylan
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Quote source: Rolling Stone interview (21 June 1984)
“I wanted just a song to sing, and there came a certain point where I couldn't sing anything. So I had to write what I wanted to sing 'cos nobody else was writing what I wanted to sing.”
— Bob Dylan
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Quote source: Interview with Bert Kleinman (30 July 1984). Compare C. S. Lewis: "People won't write the books I want, so I have to do it for myself."
“At certain times I read a lot of poetry. My favorite poets are Shelley and Keats. Rimbaud is so identifiable. Lord Byron. I don't know. Lately if I read poems, it's like I can always hear the guitar. Even with Shakespeare's sonnets I can hear a melody because it's all broken up into timed phrases so I hear it. I always keep thinking, 'What kind of song would this be?'”
— Bob Dylan
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Quote source: Interview with Denise Worrell, "'It's All Right in Front': Dylan on Life and Rock" in Time Magazine (25 November 1985)
“Chaos is a friend of mine.”
— Bob Dylan
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Quote source: Newsweek (9 December 1985)
“I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.”
— Bob Dylan
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Quote source: Interview published with the Biograph album set (1985)
“If the songs are dreamed, it's like my voice is coming out of their dream.”
— Bob Dylan
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Quote source: Quoted in Robert Shelton's No Direction Home (1986), p. 281
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