Dylan's Favorite Songwriters

[Logos]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/15/bob-dylan-exclusive-inter_n_187216.html

The entire interview can be found at:

http://www.bobdylan.com/#/conversation?page=1

 

[Pauleye58]

Dylan Interviews

I read the interview and found it somewhat puzzling. I've never really thought of Dylan and his prose as being in the past. Just about everything he has written and sung is still pertinent today. Why the interviewer and Dylan himself would speak of his work as being gone by the wayside is truly unbelievable to me. All in all the interview reads well, but the February 1966 interview is so much better. Here is a link to that interview.
http://www.interferenza.com/bcs/interw/66-jan.htm

 

[mhardy6647]

Dylan's all about benig puzzling (and elliptical)...

 

[cableguy]

Dylan's all about benig puzzling (and elliptical)...

well said..:yes:

 

[resound]

If nothing else, Bob Dylan is a completely different person than he was in 1966.
What he said about himself then holds little water today.

As reality bites, righteous indignation gives way. And that happened a long time ago.

The Huffington interview is puzzling to me in that, in his day, Dylan was one of the most prolific writers there was. He seems to have forgotten that the world is cyclic and now, his angst has come back around.


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[Logos]

When you get into your sixties and the time when people will talk about you in the past tense becomes more and more possible and real.......and you can barely remember those days of previous century fame, much less figure out why they happened......

Yes......you do talk a little different.

But he is one amazing guy.......in one sense a very ordinary guy, in another sense a miracle.........and, intentionally or not, he's still pretty opaque.