Bob Dylan

United States
Born on 24 May 1941
Songwriter, Singer, Artist, Writer

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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.
Destiny is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have in your own mind of what you're about will come true. It's a kind of a thing you kind of have to keep to your own self, because it's a fragile feeling, and you put it out there, then someone will kill it. It's best to keep that all inside.

The Bob Dylan Scrapbook: 1956-1966
You can never be wise and be in love at the same time.
If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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
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