Bob Dylan received Spanish Award

This week, the famous musician, artist and poet Bob Dylan won the "Principe de Asturias Art Price". This award is the most important cultural award in Spain and it is awarded on a yearly basis to people who have greatly contibuted to art and culture during their lifes. Here you can see a list of all the people awarded this prize.

His music is a full testimony of his time: the opposition to war, to racial discrimination... It was a generation who thought they could actually change the world. Besides, many of his songs could be considered poetry. Check this out if you don't think so:

How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
Yes, 'n' how many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, 'n' how many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they're forever banned?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.

How many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky?
Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.

How many years can a mountain exist
Before it's washed to the sea?
Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free?
Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn his head,
Pretending he just doesn't see?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.



His legacy is quite a lot of good songs (Blowin' in the wind, Like a Rolling Stone, Knocking on Heavens Doors...), and that mythical image of him singing with his harmonica next to his mouth, and playing his guitar at the same time... Thanx for all the good times, Bob! ;-)