People need to be encouraged, not stepped on and put in a straitjacket! - Bob Dylan

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People need to be encouraged, not stepped on and put in a straitjacket!

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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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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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Opportunities may come along for you to convert something -something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning of it. Sometimes you just want to do things your way, want to see for yourself what lies behind the misty curtain. It's not like you see songs approaching and invite them in. It's not that easy. You want to write songs that are bigger than life. You want to say something about strange things that have happened to you, strange things you have seen. You have to know and understand something and then go past the vernacular.

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There was a lot of halting and waiting, little acknowledgment, little affirmation, but sometimes all it takes is a wink or a nod from some unexpected place to vary the tedium of a baffling existence.

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