Reading "Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews," edited by Jonathan Cott. So far, it's 80% Dylan disputing the premise of the questions. Every so often, a little magic like this slips through.
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Calling a political malcontent “undermedicated” is ableist gaslighting. Look around you. There are holes in all our lives where generosity and care should be. Being well-adjusted to that level of abuse is not indicative of sanity.
You aren't officially a rock legend until your house burns down. I've read so many articles about that happening but I'm thinking wow ppl start to find out where you're living, you don't need a house in that job and you do need some cash about now, so... maybe I'm on to somethin
F insurance companies(only making a point here) even if you make a claim, they still always make $ or they wouldn't be in business. But don't do insurance fraud. Fire Investigators are good at their job and the penalty is severe. But just about all legends at one time looses their house to fire.
This is a spoof reply that Dylan wrote, with the approval of the interviewer, after the editors modified the original review beyond his approval. It’s a put on, which was published.
Srs reply to joke post: IIRC, sexual abuse stopped being a taboo topic in 1988 when "The Courage to Heal" was published. Before then, people thought it was rare and limited to perverts in the bushes. When Dylan was interviewed n 1966, only an abuse survivor would see a dark implication in the joke.
Uncommon for someone to be a really good poet and a really good literary critic. Interviewers keep asking Dylan for analysis.
If I was a songwriter who valued instinct first, privacy second and definitions last, I'd get tired of being asked, "What does it mean?" and, "Who are you, really?" too.
...and yeah, you don't get much pushback or consequences when people just want to be near you.
Someone on Reddit asked, "What's Dylan really like?" Someone else answered, "Imagine you're eighty, and some has told you you're a genius every day since you were twenty."
I'm listening to his "The philosophy of modern song" and it's full of him going off on tangents about the songs he's included. It's a great (and amusing) listen.
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He backs this story up.
https://youtu.be/Ve-mANenpC4?...
If I was a songwriter who valued instinct first, privacy second and definitions last, I'd get tired of being asked, "What does it mean?" and, "Who are you, really?" too.
Someone on Reddit asked, "What's Dylan really like?" Someone else answered, "Imagine you're eighty, and some has told you you're a genius every day since you were twenty."