My songs aren’t dreams. They’re more of a responsive nature… To me, when you need them, they appear. Your life doesn’t have to be in turmoil to writ… - Bob Dylan

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My songs aren’t dreams. They’re more of a responsive nature…

To me, when you need them, they appear. Your life doesn’t have to be in turmoil to write a song like that but you need to be outside of it. That’s why a lot of people, me myself included, write songs when one form or another of society has rejected you. So that you can truly write about it from the outside. Someone who’s never been out there can only imagine it as anything, really.

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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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