Badgering Bob Dylan

“You say things sometimes, you don't know what the hell you mean....”

Bob Dylan, responding to Rolling Stone’s badgering reporter, who wanted Dylan to say "I just luv Obama."

http://reason.com/blog/2012/09/14/the-badgering-of-bob-dylan-or-tell-us-yo


“What makes Dylan worth our continuing attention is not that he has clearly influenced other major artists, or that he "invented" folk rock, was the voice of his generation, ended the Vietnam War, moved to Woodstock, sang with Joan Baez, turned the Beatles onto pot, merged the Beats with a beat, or made the world safe for Loudon Wainwright III (and every other would-be ‘new Dylan’). What makes Dylan worth thinking about is that he has been -- and remains-- unprecedentedly great at what he does: writing songs and performing them.”

http://reason.com/archives/2001/11/01/the-free-floating-bob-dylan


(As Dylan reportedly said of the early 1960s folk music, “I snuck in while nobody was looking.” And, too, reading what published writers have to say about Dylan – Boring.)