Bob Dylan
United States
Born on 24 May 1941
Songwriter, Singer, Artist, Writer
Born on 24 May 1941
Songwriter, Singer, Artist, Writer
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You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.
I'm against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.
People disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book.
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
To live outside the law you must be honest.
Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you'd like to act.
You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more.
Writings and Drawings
If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure.
When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays