Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits is the eighth album released by Bob Dylan on Columbia Records, original catalogue number KCS 9643. It contains every Top 40 single Dylan enjoyed through 1967. It peaked at #10 on the pop album chart in the United States, and went to #3 on the album chart in the United Kingdom. Certified five times platinum by the RIAA, it is his best-selling album in the U.S.
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—Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)
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—Roger Simon, U.S. syndicated columnist. Quoted in Newsweek, p. 15 (January 31, 1990)
“The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind,
The answer is blowin’ in the wind.”
—Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)
“Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.”
—Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616)
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—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)