People are going to say, ‘Well, it’s not very truthful.’ But a songwriter doesn’t care about what’s truthful. What he cares about is what should’ve h… - Bob Dylan

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People are going to say, ‘Well, it’s not very truthful.’ But a songwriter doesn’t care about what’s truthful. What he cares about is what should’ve happened, what could’ve happened. That’s its own kind of truth. It’s like people who read Shakespeare plays, but they never see a Shakespeare play. I think they just use his name.

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About Bob Dylan

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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Birth Name: Robert Allen Zimmerman
Native Name: Robert Dylan
Alternative Names: Bob Landy Robert Milkwood Thomas Tedham Porterhouse Robert Zimmerman Blind Boy Grunt Jack Frost Elston Gunn Lucky Wilbury Boo Wilbury Sergei Petrov Dylan Robert Dylan né Robert Allen Zimmerman Robert Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman) Shabtai Zisl ben Avraham
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She never stumbles,
she's got no place to fall.
She's nobody's child,
the law can't touch her at all.

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Oh, sister, when I come to knock on your door-
Don't turn away, you'll create sorrow.
Time is an ocean but it ends at the shore-
You may not see me tomorrow.

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