Bob Dylan Quotes

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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If there's anyone who knows, is there anyone who cares?

There's seven people dead
On a South Dakota farm
Somewhere in the distance
There's seven new people born

You prayed to the Lord above
Oh please send you a friend
Your empty pockets tell yuh
That you ain't a-got no friend

Come Congressmen, Senators, please heed the call Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall For he who gets hurt will be he who has stalled There’s a battle outside and it's ragin’.

Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land And don't criticize What you can't understand Your sons and your daughters Are beyond your command Your old road is rapidly agin'.

Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The chance won't come again And don't speak too soon For the wheel's still in spin And there's no tellin' who that it's naming.’ For the loser now will be later to win

Come gather ’round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown. And accept it that soon You’ll be drenched to the bone. If your time to you is worth savin’ Then you better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone For the times they are a-changin'.

Half of the people can be part right all of the time,
Some of the people can be all right part of the time,
But all the people can't be all right all the time.
I think Abraham Lincoln said that.
I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.
I said that.

I got into the driver's seat and drove down 42nd Street in my Cadillac.
Good car to drive after a war.

I ain't saying you treated me unkind You could have done better but I don't mind You just kinda wasted my precious time But don't think twice, it's all right.

I'm walkin' down that long, lonesome road, babe
Where I'm bound, I can't tell
But goodbye's too good a word, babe So I'll just say fare thee well

I once loved a woman, a child I am told
I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul.

It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
If you don't know by now

It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

But I'll know my song well before I start singin'.