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Bob Dylan
said
Colleges are like old-age homes; except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
— Playboy Interview (February 1966)
Bob Dylan
American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
- Audience1.7M
- Fame95.0
- Momentum13.9
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1.7M youtube followers
- Audience1.7M
- Fame95.0
- Momentum13.9
- Global rank#53
- United States rank#22
- Musicians rank#10
Born 1941 · age 85United States
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He took folk music — a form built for protest songs and three chords — and wired it with the voltage of Rimbaud and Whitman, then plugged it in and made half his audience boo. The songwriter who gave the '60s its anthems spent the next fifty years refusing to be that guy.
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Born Robert Zimmerman in Minnesota, he arrived in New York in 1961 chasing Woody Guthrie's ghost and cut his first album of traditional folk the next year. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963) and the anthems that followed — "Blowin' in the Wind", "The Times They Are a-Changin'" — made him the voice of civil rights and antiwar movements he never asked to represent. Then in 1965 he went electric, releasing Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, and the six-minute "Like a Rolling Stone", which cracked open what a pop song could be and do. A motorcycle crash in 1966 pulled him off the road…
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Bob Dylan
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I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me.
— As quoted in "Cosmo Listens to Records" by Nat Hentoff, in Cosmopolitan (November 1965)
Bob Dylan
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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.
— Interview with Paul Robbins (March, 1965)
Bob Dylan
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a poem is a naked person . . . some people say that I am a poet
— Liner notes, Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
Bob Dylan
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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.
— When asked about the meaning of the song "Ballad of a Thin Man" during a 1965 interview.
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Historical45.1
Now attention47.6
Source confidence100.0
Completeness90.0
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