I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with freedom." This a famous quote once stated by Bob Dylan who is also known as the voice of protest. According to this quote that Dylan has stated, he should be considered a hero because of all of his influential songs that he composed. He influenced many other musicians as well as some politicians. He also helped to show his own opinion about the civil rights movements by putting his opinions in his songs. In the time that bob Dylan was a big musical artist the music he created added to rebellion music. Dylan has not only achieved a wonderful music career, but has also received many different awards. People need to realize that Bob Dylan (as well as many other musicians) have more to them then just there music.
Bob Dylan was born on May 24, 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota. He was born as Robert Allen Zimmerman or Zimmy (as a nickname to what his parents had called him). He was the older brother of his family. Bob Dylan has always wanted to be a musician even when he was a kid ever since he had taught himself how to play certain instruments. At age ten he started to teach himself to play the guitar, and only five years later when he was fifteen he learned how to play the harmonica.
When Dylan was only six years old him and his family left his childhood home and moved to Hibbling, Minnesota. This is where he would attend the Hibbling High School which he would graduate from in 1959. Though he was out of high school and he was free to continue his dream career instead he decided to further his education. In 1959 he enrolled into the University of Minnesota. Although he was eager to learn his college life did not last very long. That same year while he was still a freshman in college he dropped out of the university.
Now that he was out of college there was no more obstacles stopping him now from pursuing his lifelong dream of being a musician and the fact that he was finding life a little too boring. He just did so, on January 1961 he was headed to Chicago when he decided not to go there but to try his luck in The Big Apple also known as New York City. This is a decision that would change his life as long as his career. After finding that New York City was a little out of his price range he moved to a quieter and cheaper place called Greenwich Village. Here he started sing at clubs to make a living.
In 1965 Dylan got married to an ex-model named Shirley Noznisky. Soonly after on July 29, 1966 he was in a near fatal motorcycle accident near Woodstock, New York. As a result from the accident he suffered from a broken neck, a concussion and some lacerations. This put him into seclusion for nine months. Unfortunately in March of 1979 he divorced Shirley Noznisky.
He did get a break though, in June 4, 1986 he got married again to a Sara and later he got divorced again in 1992. He currently has five children and nine grandchildren and, is the father of the singer Jakob Dylan.
When Bob Dylan was starting to be influenced by being a musical artist he started listening to and being inspired by Hank Williams and Little Richard. His career started while singing at clubs and parties in New York. While in New York he also befriended Woody Guthrie. His career did not really take off until September 29, 1961 when Robert Shelton a critic wrote a review for the New York Times. This review helped Dylan to Get a record deal.
That same year 1961 Dylan signed a contact with Colombia Records. This deal was created by John Hammond Sr. John never gave upon Dylan, and Dylan recorded and remained with Colombia Records throughout his whole musical career. Being with Colombia Records eventually paid off when in 1965 he received his first major hit for his song"Like A Rolling Stone". Now thinking that he was someone big he decided to change things up a little by going onto stage with an electric guitar instead of an acoustic. This later resulted in him being booed off stage. The reason that he said that he changed from folk to rock is by inspiration from the Beatles.
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