Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941, is an American singer-songwriter and musician. He has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly reluctant figurehead of social unrest. A number of Dylan's early songs, such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'", became anthems for the US civil rights[3] and anti-war[4] movements. Leaving his initial base in the culture of folk music behind, Dylan's six-minute single "Like a Rolling Stone" has been described as radically altering the parameters of popular music in 1965.[5] However, his recordings employing electric instruments attracted denunciation and criticism from others in the folk movement.

Years ago they ... said I was a prophet. I used to say, "No I'm not a prophet" they say "Yes you are, you're a prophet." I said, "No it's not me." They used to say "You sure are a prophet." They used to convince me I was a prophet. Now I come out and say Jesus Christ is the answer. They say, "Bob Dylan's no prophet." They just can't handle it.

    Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else. Songs like "Let Me Rest on a Peaceful Mountain" or "I Saw the Light"—that's my religion. I don't adhere to rabbis, preachers, evangelists, all of that. I've learned more from the songs than I've learned from any of this kind of entity. The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.

 Bob Dylan
 Bob Dylan (album)
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 African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968)
 Opposition to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War
 American folk music revival
 Like a Rolling Stone
 Blowin' in the Wind
 Electric instrument
 Vitoria-Gasteiz
 Never Ending Tour
 Golden Globe Award
 Academy Award
 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
 Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame
 Songwriters Hall of Fame
 Pulitzer Prize
 Rock music
 American folk music
 Folk rock
 Blues
 Country music
 Gospel music
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 Guitar
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 Harmonica
 Joan Baez
 The Band
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 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
 Traveling Wilburys
 Johnny Cash
 Mesabi Range
 Lithuanian Jews
 Hibbing High School
 Danny & the Juniors
 University of Minnesota
 Minneapolis
 Greenwich Village
 Dave Van Ronk
 Fred Neil
 Odetta
 New Lost City Ramblers
 Cameron Crowe
 Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues
 The Ed Sullivan Show
 John Birch Society
 Civil rights movement
 The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
 Another Side of Bob Dylan
 Spanish Harlem Incident
 Leicester Square
 Electric Dylan controversy
 Bringing It All Back Home
 Subterranean Homesick Blues
 Mr. Tambourine Man
 Mike Bloomfield
 Ramblin' Jack Elliott
 American Broadcasting Company
 Woodstock
 Self Portrait (Bob Dylan album)
 All Things Must Pass
 The Concert for Bangladesh
 Watching the River Flow
 David Geffen
 Blood on the Tracks
 Elsa Dorfman
 Allen Ginsberg
 Rolling Thunder Revue
 T-Bone Burnett
 Desire (Bob Dylan album)
 Joni Mitchell
 Muddy Waters
 Van Morrison
 Neil Young
 The Last Waltz
 Bob Dylan World Tour 1978
 Triumph Tiger 100
 Woodstock, New York
 This Wheel's on Fire (song)
 Nashville, Tennessee
 Jimi Hendrix
 One Too Many Mornings
 Carole Bayer Sager
 Richard Marquand
 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
 Things Have Changed
 The Wall Street Journal
 Confessions of a Yakuza
 "Love and Theft"
 Theme Time Radio Hour
 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album
 I'm Not There
 Christian Bale
 Cate Blanchett
 Marcus Carl Franklin
 Mason Jennings
 Tom Verlaine
 Modern Times (Bob Dylan album)
 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
 The Original Mono Recordings
 Random House
 Bob Dylan discography
 List of awards received by Bob Dylan
 Jewish Defense League
 Meir Kahane
 Born again (Christianity)
 Chabad
 Jon Pareles
 William Shakespeare
 The Village Voice
 Mick Jagger
 Eminem
 Patti Smith