iamDrukpa: May 28, 2012

Monday, May 28, 2012

The Book of Bob

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All I can do is be me, whoever that is.
I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.
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.
I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.
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.
Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.
Half of the people can be part right all of the time
Some of the people can be all right part of the time
But all of the people can’t be all right all of the time
I think Abraham Lincoln said that
“I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours” I said that
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.
A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.
A song is anything that can walk by itself.
At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.
Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere.
But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.
Chaos is a friend of mine.
Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
He not busy being born is busy dying.
I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.
I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.
I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.
I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.
I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon.
I'm speaking for all of us. I'm the spokesman for a generation.
I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.
The radio makes hideous sounds.
There is nothing so stable as change.
This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.
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?

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.
Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.
To live outside the law, you must be honest.
Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.
Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them. Ps: YourLustForLifeStartsRightNow!

Happy Bob Day Bob! (i Said That!)

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(Anonymous) Ok. I have never been a big fan of Bob Dylan’s music.

But. I like the fact he went out … and kind of shoved it back in the face of establishment.

He kind of just said “here I am … take it or leave it.” And figured out how to be successful at what he wanted to do.

I am pretty sure the people who know exactly what they want to do … or what they will be good at .. are in the minority.

I would bet a really small minority.

And worse? People judging what YOU will be good at have a fairly poor track record as a rule of thumb .

What that means is if you are in that minority (who actually knows what they want to do) and the majority of people think you will suck at it … well … it not only sucks but it is tough.

People said Bob Dylan can’t sing. But he became a singer.

If you ever wonder if there is a formula for life … I would imagine Bob Dylan is the penultimate proof that there is not.

And while the majority of us will never be as famous or as successful as Bob that’s not really the point.

The point is that there are really only a couple of truths in Life:

1. All you can do is be you … no matter who that is.

2. Everything changes … all the frickin’ time as a matter of fact … so you should just do what you think you should do.

Bob?

No. He can’t sing. But he is a singer.

If that isn’t a Life lesson I don’t know what is.

The Never Ending Star Book of Bob

-Lee Marshall

Bob Dylan's contribution to popular music is immeasurable. Venerated as rock's one true genius, Dylan is considered responsible for introducing a new range of topics and new lyrical complexity into popular music. Without Bob Dylan, rock critic Dave Marsh once claimed, there would be no popular music as we understand it today.

As such an exalted figure, Dylan has been the subject of countless books and intricate scholarship considering various dimensions of both the man and his music. This book places new emphasis on Dylan as a rock star. Whatever else Dylan is, he is a star -- iconic, charismatic, legendary, enigmatic. No one else in popular music has maintained such star status for so long a period of time.

Showing how theories of stardom can help us understand both Bob Dylan and the history of rock music, Lee Marshall provides new insight into how Dylan's songs acquire meaning and affects his relationship with his fans, his critics

and the recording industry. Marshall discusses Dylan's emergence as a star in the folk revival (the "spokesman for a generation") and the formative role that Dylan plays in creating a new type of music -- rock -- and a new type of star. Bringing the book right up to date, he also sheds new light on how Dylan's later career has been shaped by his earlier star image and how Dylan repeatedly tried to throw off the limitations and responsibilities of his stardom.

The book concludes by considering the revival of Dylan over the past ten years and how Dylan's stardom has developed in a way that contains, but is not overshadowed by, his achievements in the 1960s.

Ps: YourLustForLifeStartsRightNow!