Bob Dylan Lyrics

Bob Dylan Info:

Birth Name:
Robert Allen Zimmerman

Also Known As:
Elston Gunnn
Blind Boy Grunt
Bob Landy
Robert Milkwood Thomas
Tedham Porterhouse
Lucky/Boo Wilbury
Jack Frost
Sergei Petrov

Born:
May 24, 1941 (age )

Born In:
Duluth, Minnesota, U.S.

Home town:
Hibbing, Minnesota, U.S.

Residence:
Malibu, California, U.S.

Education:
University of Minnesota

Height:
5' 7½" (1.71 m)

Occupation:
Singer-songwriter, record producer, artist, writer

Years active:
1959–present

Father:
Abe, worked for the Standard Oil Co

Spouses:
Sara Lownds (m. 1965; div. 1977)
Carolyn Dennis (m. 1986; div. 1992)

Children:
Maria Dylan (adopted)
Jesse Dylan
Anna Dylan
Samuel Dylan
Desiree Dennis-Dylan
Jakob Dylan (lead singer of The Wallflowers)

Genres:
Folk, blues, rock, country, gospel

Instruments:
Vocals, guitar, keyboards, harmonica

Associated acts:
Joan Baez
The Band
Tom Petty
Grateful Dead
Traveling Wilburys
Mark Knopfler

Bob Dylan Quotes:
A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon.

I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, "Okay, you've been up on the mountain, now you go down. You're on your own, free. Check in later, but now you're on your own."

I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.

Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I'm not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I've never thought about that before! He said, When you're not following me, you're resisting me.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

Well, I don't know, but I've been told the streets in heaven are lined with gold. I ask you how things could get much worse if the Russians happen to get up there first; Wowee! pretty scary!

What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.
When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?
Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.
You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows. Don't follow leaders watch the parkin' meters.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.


Bob Dylan Awards:
1973
Grammy Award for Album of the Year for The Concert For Bangla Desh

1980
Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance - Male ("Gotta Serve Somebody").

1982
Inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame

1989
Inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

1990
Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group as part of the Traveling Wilburys (Traveling Wilburys Volume One).

1991
Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammy Awards.

1995
Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album (World Gone Wrong).

1998
Grammy Awards for Best Rock Vocal Performance - Male ("Cold Iron Bound"), Album of the Year, and Best Contemporary Folk Album (Time Out Of Mind).

2002
Grammy Award (Love & Theft) for Best Contemporary Folk Album

2006
Grammy Award for Best Music Video, Long Form (No Direction Home) and No Direction Home: The Soundtrack (The Bootleg Series Vol. 7)

2008
The Pulitzer Prize jury awarded him a special citation for "his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power."

2012
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama.

2016
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the first musician to receive it.