If I was building any new kind of life to live, it really didn't seem that way. It's not as if I had turned in any old one to live it. If anything, I… - Bob Dylan

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If I was building any new kind of life to live, it really didn't seem that way. It's not as if I had turned in any old one to live it. If anything, I wanted to understand things and then be free of them. I needed to learn how to telescope things, ideas. Things were too big to see all at once, like all the books in the library -everything laying around on all the tables. You might be able to put it all into one paragraph or into one verse of a song if you could get it right.

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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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