Great Throughts Treasury

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Bob Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman

American Singer-Songwriter, Poet, Social Activist

"When you aint’t got nothing, you got nothing to lose."

"Come mothers and fathers, throughout the land and don't criticize what you can't understand. Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command, your old road is rapidly agin'. Please get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand for the times they are a-changin'!"

"He not busy being born is busy dying."

"You've got to serve somebody."

"What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."

"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do. "

"Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most."