{"id":1080,"date":"2010-05-24T13:03:50","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T13:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2010\/05\/quotes-for-bob-dylans-birthday.html"},"modified":"2010-05-24T13:03:50","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T13:03:50","slug":"quotes-for-bob-dylans-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2010\/05\/quotes-for-bob-dylans-birthday.html","title":{"rendered":"Quotes for Bob Dylan’s Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bob-dylan.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>Today, Robert Zimmerman turns 69 years old.  (You know Robert Zimmerman is folk legend Bob Dylan’s real name, right?  Ok, good.)  <\/p>\n

Anyway, today is Bob Dylan’s birthday, and a good time to reflect on a man who could be called “folk legend,” “strange genius,” “religious chameleon,” “voice of a generation,” and “heart-breaker” with equal justification for each epithet.  <\/p>\n

One only has to take a stroll through some of Dylan’s quotes to get a sense of the mysterious power that this man has held steadily from 1969 to age 69.  Here are some to pique your imagination, as Dylan always does:<\/p>\n

Bob Dylan Quotes: Happy Birthday, Man!<\/u><\/p>\n

“A hero is someone who understands the responsibility
\nthat comes with his freedom.”<\/p>\n

<\/span>“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and
\ngets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.<\/span>”<\/p>\n

“A poem is a naked person… Some people say that I am
\na poet.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself
\ncrucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.<\/span>”<\/p>\n

“Chaos is a friend of mine.<\/span>”<\/p>\n

“He not busy being born is busy dying.<\/span>“<\/p>\n

“I’ve forgotten more than you’ll ever know.”<\/p>\n

“No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.”<\/p>\n

And then, of course, there are the songs.  My favorites are “Boots of Spanish Leather,” “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll,” and “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright.”  Yours are….?<\/p>\n

(image via: http:\/\/tonemarrowreviews.wordpress.com\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Today, Robert Zimmerman turns 69 years old.  (You know Robert Zimmerman is folk legend Bob Dylan’s real name, right?  Ok, good.)  Anyway, today is Bob Dylan’s birthday, and a good time to reflect on a man who could be called “folk legend,” “strange genius,” “religious chameleon,” “voice of a generation,” and “heart-breaker” with equal justification…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-by-holly-lebowitz-rossi","category-current-events"],"yoast_head":"\nQuotes for Bob Dylan's Birthday - Fresh Living<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2010\/05\/quotes-for-bob-dylans-birthday.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Quotes for Bob Dylan's Birthday - 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