What Bob Dylan Wanted at Twenty-three
Those casual fans wonder why he can’t be more like the Stones, unfailing jukeboxes of their earlier selves. They want to squint and see the young Dylan, with his Pre-Raphaelite hair and his Brando sneer. They want, at least for an hour and a half, a magic act: a man in his eighties who is a man in his youth.
David Remnick • A Unified Field Theory of Bob Dylan
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For his first 6 years of trying to be a songwriter, Paul Simon wrote terrible songs. “They were all terrible,” his biographer Robert Hilburn said, “I found his old demos—there’s about 50 of them—and it’s unbelievable: there isn’t one good song.” Finally, in the fall of 1963, Simon made a vow: After spending those first 6 years mostly “copying what
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He loved to keep playing with the words over the years, just like Dylan keeps playing with “Tangled Up in Blue” (his own “Young Americans”).
Rob Sheffield • On Bowie
🔥 this Bob Dylan lyric: "I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now"
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when bob dylan sings, it feels like he’s singing for no one but himself. at least not trying to mold around his feelings / sayings so they’re pretty to others. he’s singing the things that hit on truth for him.
his strange rap song and the music video that goes along with it… is raw and even not super pleasant. but it has swagger. he’s saying random
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In 1964, on a folk tour around England, Bob Dylan considered quitting.
He said,
“I play these concerts, and I ask myself: ‘Would you come see me tonight?’ and I have to truthfully say: ‘No, I wouldn’t come...'"
Burnt out and ready to quit playing music, Dylan asked himself,… Show more
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