I did everything fast. Thought fast, ate fast, talked fast … - Bob Dylan

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I did everything fast. Thought fast, ate fast, talked fast and walked fast. I even sang my songs fast. I needed to slow my mind down if I was going to be a composer with anything to say.

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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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Birth Name: Robert Allen Zimmerman

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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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