Sometimes that’s all it takes, the kind of recognition that… - Bob Dylan

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Sometimes that’s all it takes, the kind of recognition that comes when you’re doing the thing for the thing’s sake and you’re on to something — it’s just that nobody recognizes it yet.

Bob Dylan

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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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and if anybody asks me is it easy to forget
I'll say it is easily done,
you just pick anyone,
and pretend that you never have met

When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose.

[Ref Rimbaud line 'Je est un autre,]' “which translates into ‘I is someone else.’ When I read those words the bells went off. It made perfect sense. I wished someone would have mentioned that to me earlier.”

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