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American singer-songwriter (born 1941)

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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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Pen Names: Bob Landy • Robert Milkwood Thomas • Tedham Porterhouse • Blind Boy Grunt • Jack Frost • Elston Gunn • Boo Wilbury • Lucky Wilbury • Sergei Petrov

Birth Name: Robert Allen Zimmerman

Native Name: Robert Dylan

Alternative Names: Robert Zimmerman • Dylan • Robert Dylan né Robert Allen Zimmerman • Robert Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman) • Shabtai Zisl ben Avraham

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Come all without, come all within, You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quinn.

Everybody movin', if they ain't already there. Everyboy got to move somewhere.

"God said: "Abraham, kill me a son. Abe said: "Man, you must be putting me on." God said: "No." Abe said: "What" God said: "You can do what you want Abe but the next time you see me coming you'd better run". Abe said: "Where you want this killing done?" God said: "Out on Highway 61."

The cops don't need you, and, man, they expect the same.

"In another life, I could have been you," she'd say.
"Yeah, but then I wouldn't have been the same person in that life."
"Yeah, that's right. Let's work on it."

Capitalism is above the law; it's said it don't count 'less it sells.

[In 1951] we were also told that the Russians could be parachuting from planes over our town at any time. These were the same Russians that my uncles had fought alongside only a few years earlier. Now they had become monsters who were coming to slit our throats and incinerate us. It seemed peculiar. Living under a cloud of fear like this robs a child of his spirit. It's one thing to be afraid when someone's holding a shotgun on you, but it's another thing to be afraid of something that's just not quite real.

I kiss good-bye the howling beast on the borderline which separated you from me.

Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me.
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me.
In the jingle-jangle morning, I'll come following you.

Take care of all your memories. said my friend Mick, For you cannot relive them.

You can't be wise and in love at the same time. – Bob Dylan, No Direction Home (2005) Directed by Martin Scorsese.

If your memory serves you well, I was gonna confiscate your lace and wrap it up in a sailor's knot and hide it in your case. And if I knew for sure that it was yours, it was oh so hard to tell, and you know that we shall meet again, if your memory serves you well.

Get jailed, jump bail
Join the army, if you fail

Your debutante just knows what you need, but I know what you want.

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.