10 Most Popular ANTI-Rockstars

The rock and roll lifestyle doesn't really have to be the ideal journey for everyone who picks up a guitar. Sometimes artists just like to make music for the sake of their art, without really wanting the hassle that comes with being a big and powerful pop star. However, when you give one of those people the title of Voice of a Generation, things are going to start getting a little testy.

For the longest time, Bob Dylan never wanted to be anything more than just a songwriter, playing his folk tunes whenever he saw fit. The only problem was...everything he wrote was really damn good, causing people to adopt Blowin in the Wind and The Times They Are AChangin as modern anthems. Even though Dylan tried to depart from his usual folk crowd with Like a Rolling Stone, the response was much more rapturous than he would have wanted, giving him the mantle of almost a musical deity in some fan's eyes.

Even the other rock contemporaries like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones had the utmost reverence for Dylan's work, which made him run away from his own celebrity as fast as possible. Being very coy in interviews and eventually making deliberately challenging albums like Self Portrait, most of Dylan's later period was populated by him trying to connect with his audience as a person rather than an icon. While rock stars tend to have some level of importance about their craft, Dylan always stood by his role as just a humble writer looking to pen the next great track.