The future for me is already a thing of the past -You were my first love and you will be my last
— Bob Dylan - Love and Theft: Piano/Vocal/Guitar
Bob Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman, is an American singer-songwriter described as one of the greatest songwriters of all time. He brought increasingly sophisticated lyrical techniques to the folk music of the early 1960s, infusing it "with the intellectualism of classic literature and poetry." His lyrics drew on political, social and philosophical influences and appealed to the growing counterculture.
Born in St. Louis County, Minnesota, he moved to New York City in 1961 to pursue a music career. His 1962 debut album, Bob Dylan, was followed by the breakthrough The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, which included "Girl from the North Country" and "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall." His song "Blowin' in the Wind" followed in 1963. His memoir Chronicles, Vol. 1 is his most quoted work in our library.
Born in St. Louis County, Minnesota, he moved to New York City in 1961 to pursue a music career. His 1962 debut album, Bob Dylan, was followed by the breakthrough The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, which included "Girl from the North Country" and "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall." His song "Blowin' in the Wind" followed in 1963. His memoir Chronicles, Vol. 1 is his most quoted work in our library.
Most quoted works
- Chronicles, Vol. 1 14
- Lyrics:1962 2001 3
- The Bob Dylan Scrapbook: 1956-1966 2
- The Lyrics: Since 1962 2
There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.
— Chronicles, Vol. 1
I had no time for romance. I turned away from the window, from the wintry sun, crossed through the room, went to the stove and made and poured myself a cup of hot chocolate and then clicked on the radio
— Chronicles, Vol. 1
Let me ask you one question / Is your money that goodWill it buy you forgiveness / Do you think that it couldI think you will find / When your death takes its toll / All the money you made / Will never buy back your soul
— The Bob Dylan Scrapbook: 1956-1966
I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours
— Lyrics:1962 2001
The line it is drawn / The curse it is cast / The slow one now / Will later be fast / As the present now / Will later be past / The new order is / Rapidly fadin'.And the first one now / Will later be last / For the times they are a-changin'.
— Chronicles, Vol. 1
Come senators, congressmen / Please heed the call / Don't stand in the doorway / Don't block up the hall / For he that gets hurt / Will be he who has stalled / There's a battle outside ragin'.It'll soon shake your windows / And rattle your walls / For the times they are a-changin'.
— Chronicles, Vol. 1
When Johnson started singing, he seemed like a guy who could have sprung from the head of Zeus in full armor.
— Chronicles, Vol. 1
She's got everything she needs; she's an artist, she don't look back.
— Lyrics, 1962-1985
What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not threatening - all bunk. No guarantees of anything, not even the guarantee that life isn't one big joke.
— Chronicles, Vol. 1
Yet there’s no one to beat you | No one t’ defeat you | ’Cept the thoughts of yourself feeling bad
— The Lyrics: 1961-2012
Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.
— Chronicles, Vol. 1
..my father was the best man in the world and probably worth a hundred of me, but he didn't understand me. The town he lived in and the town I lived in were not the same.
— Chronicles, Vol. 1
It seemed I'd always been chasing after something, anything that moved -a car, a bird, a blowing leaf -anything that might lead me into some more lit place, some unknown land downriver. I had not even the vaguest notion of the broken world I was living in, what society could do with you.
— Chronicles, Vol. 1
People talk about egos as if it were objects.