Early+Bob+Dylan

Bob Dylan started off in the Folk music genre. He sang, played the acoustic guitar, and the harmonica. He changed his name from Robert Allen Zimmerman to Bob Dylan. As a young boy he was influenced by blues and country music, especially Woody Guthrie. When his career first began he played at fairs and many open air locations. media type="youtube" key="XRbeUnn-AUA&hl=en" height="355" width="425" When giving interviews he would treat the reporters the same way they treated him. He would question their questions and would treat them with respect but also treat them as if he knew more then them. This interview was with Time Magazine and was done on his UK tour in 1965. media type="youtube" key="pR8YuIGqWi4&hl=en" height="355" width="425" His songs were mainly protest songs about what was going on at the time he was writing them. [|"Oxford Town"] released in 1963 on //The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan// was about James Meredith's ordeal as the first black student to risk enrollment at the University of Mississippi.

Bob Dylan's songs impacted not only the political but social thoughts of those all around the world. He helped bring attention to issues that may have been over looked or simply not thought about in a deeper way. His music has impacted many artists even to this date including the Beatles. Rolling Stone magazine ranked him as the second greatest artist of all time in 2004


 * "He wasn't pussyfooting around on "Like a Rolling Stone" or "Ballad of a Thin Man." This was the rebel rebelling against the rebellion." -[|Robbie Robertson](one of Dylan's guitarists)
 * "Lyrically he mined equal veins of intricacy and absurdity, with surrealist sheets of wordplay mixing with heartfelt romanticism and cynical putdowns." -[|Stuart Maconie]
 * "Lyrically the album mostly concentrates on romantic entanglements, a perfect example being Just Like A Woman, an enduring and complicated song, it's hard to know if Dylan is being critical or appreciative." -[|Critical Junctions]


 * __Quotes By Dylan__**
 * Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.
 * If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.
 * There is nothing so stable as change.
 * He not busy being born is busy dying.

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