I've said this before, and maybe on this comment page, there are better things one could do with one's life than speculate about the life of Bob Dylan. Accept it that he's just a weird guy who wrote and sang a lot of great songs. What's he supposed to be, the Messiah? Get over it. Be your own Messiah. What few consider is that Bob Dylan has to get up every day and be Bob Dylan. Who among us could handle such a predicament? We have the songs. What more do you need?
"i heard you wrote blowin in the wind in 10 minutes, is that true?" Dylan: "long pause ..... probably " "just like that ?" dylan:" ya......" hahahahahahah
Time out of mind. Love and theft. Modern Times. These are relatively new, and all great! Not to mention the fabulous "Things have changed" from the Wonder Boys OST. He's not retired just yet... Stopped with music? Seriously?
@Asmodian1ghost He didn't stop with music - He just writes differently - he's always evolving - who he was in the mid 1960s and 40 years later is just differnt - you'll see when you are 43 :D
I highly recommend you read it, Chronicles that is not Tarantula. It rolls easy, a dream of a read to escape into. I've not heard Dylan ever got suckered into smack, I really don't think that ever happened but I might be wrong. I heard he had a serious love affair with the bottle in the eighties. Anyway, this is just a prompt, get down to your local library and ask 'em for Chronicles.
This is another reason why i love this man so much, he speaks exactly how he feels.
He could of said he can still write the lyrics and songs from his famous 60's albums but he admitted that the magic is gone, i do still obviously love his later albums from 70's to present but my favourite songs will always be EVERY song from his early recordings in 1961 to nashville skyline in 1969 and any outakes or unreleased. I can't think of one i don't like.
commenting on Bob really brightens my day- makes me feel important, like someone special, like someone out there does care. I named 2 of my kids after him and may name 19 more.
Dylan said in a resent interview that he never believed a single word that he wrote. that his only ambition was to 'make it'.
(Up to that point I had one each of every album and CD including his first (which sold less than 5000 copies. I had met him at Alan Lomax Jr's place a week before his Carnegie Hall concert.)
That is the exact point at which I lost all interest in him.his lyrics, his music.
Damn right. People evolve and his music has evolved. It takes time for some people to catch up. Cut him some slack, respect him for the gifts that he has given.
Arthur Miller, Chagall, Einstein, Bohr, Salk, Dylan....Marx....
Need I go on.
The 20th century in the west was largely dominated by Jews...which is ironic considering the holocaust bisected the century. Yes folks, one standard deviation in IQ is just that important.
This is what comes of having been Chosen. Jews are the best of people, and the worst of people. Some of the people you itemize are frauds or criminals, some are geniuses, but all rely absolutely either on having done a deal with YHVH, or with LCFR. And which holocaust are you talking about ? The one the jews suffered, or the infinitely worse one one they inflicted ? A recent scientific article took Israeli soldiers, and found that their IQ on average was, well, just average...
Lubavitchers and Haredi having 6 kids a couple at 21 now....Askenazic petrie dishes of brain power. In 100 yrs barring genetic engineering the offspring of these children will completely dominate any intellectual endeavor..just as their great great grandparents had before them.
In about '56 or '57. my dad told Bobby (then Zimmerman) , when he asked him, that he should go to NYC, The Village, etc., if he really wanted to make it in folk music . .
"The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit." John 3:8
I believe Bob was referring to God. Satan is not a chief commander in the world of we would not exist. satan is definitely not the chief commander in the spirit world. He doesnt take it for granted because he is grateful. It is not uncommon for people to ask God for things. I think is important for anyone who sees this to watch the whole interview before you pass judgement. Why would the devil be edited from the interview before he is asked who he bargained with. It doesnt make sense
Yes,Uncle Bob was, and is, the real deal, and a much more modest man than he is given credit for. For my money some of his later stuff is just as good. Jokerman was up there and Time Out of Mind was a brilliant album, I think.
Why do people always have to be all morose and look for a "sold my soul to the devil" connection!? Crime in It'ly! He has a gift! A gift for song and poetry with the sting of reality to it!
That's a gift from the good side of the tracks, and he probably never knows when he'll do it again because that's how those giftings are. That's because he's not the source, God is. I know everybody hates like hell hearing that, but it is true whether you believe it or not!
It's even true whether he believes it or not. And there seem to be seasons where the gift is more active than others, and some seasons where it seems downright nonexistant. It's like, it's dormant.
@LetsTakeArideOut still sounds like Dylan, no pretending, honest. if any artist was as sought after as he was, going overboard with people trying to pry into his private life, guess any one of them would develop a level of "prickdom." its in the dude's personality, he's sarcastic, so what! if you want to surf around spreading you're good cheer and opinions on stuck up pricks, "takearideout" of here and go visit a marilyn manson video, you'd fit right in there. : ) have a nice day.
Holy shit!! Dylan channeled those songs through ritualistic ceramony's that SATAN himself wrote.. Gotta read between the lines of this whole epic interview. I doubt his handlers were happy with his honesty here.
Dylan;s voice is ruined -- Always loved listening to his music and still think that it is great; wonderful songwriter but never liked the arrogance that came along with fortune and fame that was not there at the very beginning. Great artist but would never shell out my hard-earned doe for his concert these days. I l loved to sing a lot of his tunes when I was a very young teen back in those halcyon flower power days. Even my conservative family saw that his words conveyed power and genius.
@mobster14914101 Wait until you are over 60! for 7 years i don't recognize my own face in the mirror! Very disconcerting. All of a sudden (in the last year) i have become old. Remember, 50 is the youth of old age. Do what you want now. You may not be able to when you reach 65. Don't wait for retirement. Build something for yourself.
He tricked me. I can't stand him. I never want to hear one word of his ever again. It isn't bad enough that he openly sold his soul...then he tours putting up the Egyptian eye of Horath. That's just plain evil. He was a jewish person. They were enslaved by the egyptians; or is that a joke to him too(or on him I should say on him ). I named my kids after this evil clown. I was a kid when these interviews were on. That and I never had/watched tv- I'm blown away. Pity his son.
I would like to tell him to his ugly wrinkled face...What a let down loser freak he is. A satanist- and that's a joke? He's a liar...Who doesn't any famous people joke on God's side...No they joke that it's all made up- no heaven or hell. I wish someone would smack his ugly devil ass kissin face for me. The muslims act more respectable than most Americans...I'm not a muslim. There's no excuse for Bob and any immigrant would say so too.
His crap aint that poetic or great- get real, a 6 yr old can do that nonsense crap. What has he done since? He wrote one song w/ black gospel in the background...and he's some freedom fighter? What a joke- he is laughing at us and the devil he "sold his soul to"...all the way to the bank. He sure made a come back after that devil remark. Pray for his soul and his poor beautiful son.
What he means is: there was never any sort of rational method to what I did, so now I can't replicate it.
Shakespeare could still write when he was close to death...until your minds goes you can still crank out something if there's a method. When you just spew some gibberish bullshit and the LSD stops being so effective, you can't make the "magic" anymore. That's code for, I used to have random bad poetry pop in my head, now I don't. Good poetry is a method. You get better with time
I know what Bob Dylan is talking about. It just happens. A line of poetry just arrives, you write it down and suddenly it's all just writing itself.
it's interesting how many artists mention 'magick' when asked about how they do what they do, even lady gaga seems to think she is helped by some dead relative or other... i do my shit on my own, it's mundane, but it's mine.
I always heard about Dylan, growing up how much everyone loved him. But then when I was 15 or so I heard the Bleach album for the first time and this little blond heroin addict changed my life forever. To each their own I suppose.
Bob Dylan, I don't suppose you'll ever read this, but all I'll say is you made my life a great deal richer from the time I was a child, and it continues. I am constantly inspired, uplifted, transported by your poetry, your music.
Yes, perhaps the older stuff has the greater poetry, but I like some of your recent stuff too.
the 20th century's greatest poet.........he's very realistic even about this own persona,status, & inspiration...........cannot create what just came out of nowhere no matter how hard you try.....when it happens it happens......it can be years until it comes again....maybe never ...otherwise you're pretending.......luckily his immense catalogue can sustain a few careers.....
@marbleheadband Not sure I would call him the greatest poet of this century. Personally, I find Nick Drake's lyrics to be some of the most beautiful and poetic of the 20th century. I like Bob Dylan, but listening to Nick Drake is a more intimate experience for me. The fragility of Nick Drake's vocal delivery and his beautiful use of symbols from nature is what really gets to me.
@doughboycod2 i'm not sure i agree but i absolutely see where you're coming from. nick drake was great, and "day is done" is one of the greatest songs from one of the greatest albums of all time.
you know I think it's called automatic hand writing, something I have and was told by a few people in the know and it all of a sudden is kicked off from your subconcious and there is always a trigger to it I have piles of stuff that musicians have said do something with it not sure how you do that and Bob Dylan with Leonard Cohen the greatest of all time have done it they some thing else.LEGENDS
you know I think it's called automatic hand writing, something I have and was told by a few people in the know and it all of a sudden is kicked off from your subconcious and there is always a trigger to it I have piles of stuff that musicians have said do something with it not sure how you do that and Bob Dylan with Leonard Cohen the greatest of all time have done it they some thing else.
you don't think you can do it today? umm ummm....: (> when its all said and done folks, Bob can't be too concerned with what you think of him. why not focus on the gargantuan contribution the guy has given us? Just gotta hack away at people all the time, don't we? remember, HE has never claimed greatness, WE did that all by ourselves. the guy's just rolling along doing what turns him on, no pretentiousness, unlike alot of the garbage we got now!
@tomcaat1 What most people that post a video covering Dylans 'magic', they are trying to point out a "sold his soul" connection. He could only do that once. I didn't see it specifically in this one though, but he did talk around it.
Selling your soul? Come on people. Santa's not real either. He's sad because he doesn't like discussing his past. I think he relates time to mistakes he made, opportunities he missed and decisions he procrastinated into oblivion. He's a respectable man with a very rich career, yet people only want to speak about his first 5 years of songwriting. It's like you have a Pulitzer prize for a PH.D. paper, and people keep asking you about your school reports from 3rd grade.
Selling your soul? Come on people. Santa's not real either. He's sad because he doesn't like discussing his past. I think he relates time to mistakes he made, opportunities he missed and decisions he procrastinated into oblivion. He's a respectable man with a very rich career, yet people only want to speak about his first 5 years of songwriting. It's like you have a Pulitzer prize for a PH.D. paper, and people keep asking you about your school reports from 3rd grade.
He seems miserable!! He knows he sold his sould and he will never get it back unfortunatly he has to carry on with the deal and keep writing music forever....
he's really just trying to seem enigmatic; disheveled like a weathered artist, self-deprecating in a way. Why wouldn't he be changed between 17 and 67. everyone is. The world looking forward, the world looking behind and to the near-term unknown future with the weight of several decades of history behind you. What? Do you want Baba Wawa to come on and make him cry, do ya?
You get old and it all falls away so why keep going producing some awful material. Why does he do it, for the money, for the fame, because he has to? We love Bob from the Sixties and a little after that well, he said once upon a time that he was a song and dance man. I guess he has to keep on going until he dies, good bad or different, maybe difficult albums. The sadness of a long distance singer, eh what?!The sadness of all creative people.
I think that it is just , you right masterpieces , it gets to a point where you can't top it over and over and over again , and thats what he is feeling
dylan is always SO honest. he answers the essential question. in a way that might be difficult to understand if you havent had his life, his skills, his career, his fame. but he answers as HIMSELF, not as a rock star.
My mother is from Frisco and she knew friends of Dillan a little before he blew up, people that knew him, she told me, were sure that he did not write his music, this could sound like blasphemy for Dillan fans but she was told by these people that there was no way he wrote that music himself.
@damroach I agree about drugs being bad, but you shoot yourself in the foot if you use Dylan for your example. Millions of people would like to "end up" like him. He knows how to act. He also knows about what we're up against. No one in full knowledge could act like they've "got it made," knowing what being aware and realistic reveals.
bob dylan has written incredible songs in the past ten years. it's not all the same stuff from the '60's. he is a force of nature and it's the fact he changes that makes him what he is. there's never been another like him.
Well of course you can't do it now Dylan your 70 something your brain's pretty much tired out from all the thinking and writing you done when you was younger. Happens to everyone, that's why they say cherish your youth, cos that's the time you can make the true impact on the world.
Im sure the massive amounts of drugs he took over a span of 30-40yrs did some damage to his brain. Idk if this is still the case now but it was a well known fact his son who sings for the Wallflowers wants nothing to do with his father which at Dylans age knows he hasnt got much time left. Just my opinion
@Jesse6O If you read the RS interview of a few years back you'll see that while Jakob ("his son who signs for the Wallflowers" ) wont go into much detail about his father what he does say is positive and he points to the success of Bob's children as evidence that he was in fact a good father. Also, more recently RS magazine reported how Bob was at his grandson's (Jakobs son's) kindergarten classes playing for the kids - i thought Jakob wanted nothing to do with him? Get your facts straight!
@Cleatusbodean Well, if you know his history, you'll know that he was the first performer in the 60s to have death threats made. It was during his English tour. You could review the Scorsese documentary, "No Direction Home." Dylan has always been oblique and minimal about himself and his abilities since that time. He still makes incredible music and writes just as well. Check out Love and Theft album and two since then. Dylan is Dylan. He's a survivor and no fool.
Blowing in the wind - 10 minutes huh, there you go. You've either got it or you haven't and if you haven't then you might want....
Jaybird0011 4 days ago
It's always seemed to me that Bob Dylan is the kind of person who is most uncomfortable talking about himself and his work.
hirdy6 4 days ago
Every time I see a different image of Dylan it seems to me that in everyone he is a different person, weird...
hundimzug 5 days ago
I've said this before, and maybe on this comment page, there are better things one could do with one's life than speculate about the life of Bob Dylan. Accept it that he's just a weird guy who wrote and sang a lot of great songs. What's he supposed to be, the Messiah? Get over it. Be your own Messiah. What few consider is that Bob Dylan has to get up every day and be Bob Dylan. Who among us could handle such a predicament? We have the songs. What more do you need?
truegangsteroflove 5 days ago
non sai che ha fatto il patto con satana?
Spacecowboyable 6 days ago
zionist puppet
AetroyayorteA 6 days ago
I completely understand.
drygwelski22 1 week ago
"i heard you wrote blowin in the wind in 10 minutes, is that true?" Dylan: "long pause ..... probably " "just like that ?" dylan:" ya......" hahahahahahah
ZimmermanMosiac 2 weeks ago
@ZimmermanMosiac aww your one of those people? ohh man
RoryMoore88 2 weeks ago
Wow! What a disturbing interview with Bobby Zimmerman! What was that classic PSA ad, "The mind is a terrible thing to waste!" ? ;-(
JeffOHora 2 weeks ago
Time out of mind. Love and theft. Modern Times. These are relatively new, and all great! Not to mention the fabulous "Things have changed" from the Wonder Boys OST. He's not retired just yet... Stopped with music? Seriously?
maildevil82 2 weeks ago
Wow I am 13 and I listen to Bob Dylan alot. Sad that he stopped with music.
Asmodian1ghost 3 weeks ago
@Asmodian1ghost He didn't stop with music - He just writes differently - he's always evolving - who he was in the mid 1960s and 40 years later is just differnt - you'll see when you are 43 :D
EricDavidFloyd 3 weeks ago
@Asmodian1ghost huh??  keep listening you .. dylan never stopped
TheArsong 3 weeks ago
@Asmodian1ghost he havent stop with music. So be hopeful
KnowingProject 1 week ago
I need to read Dylan's book. I heard he was addicted to Heroin and that it may have been a cause for some of his weaker albums (the 80s)

juffan 4 weeks ago
I highly recommend you read it, Chronicles that is not Tarantula. It rolls easy, a dream of a read to escape into. I've not heard Dylan ever got suckered into smack, I really don't think that ever happened but I might be wrong. I heard he had a serious love affair with the bottle in the eighties. Anyway, this is just a prompt, get down to your local library and ask 'em for Chronicles.
And thanks uploader for this interview,
halfpricedrinks 2 weeks ago
what is this taken from?
brosnaboy 1 month ago
the more i know of bob dylan the more i love him
johnlockejr42 1 month ago 7
This is another reason why i love this man so much, he speaks exactly how he feels.
He could of said he can still write the lyrics and songs from his famous 60's albums but he admitted that the magic is gone, i do still obviously love his later albums from 70's to present but my favourite songs will always be EVERY song from his early recordings in 1961 to nashville skyline in 1969 and any outakes or unreleased. I can't think of one i don't like.
BobDylansNumber1Fan 1 month ago
what is the name of the second song?? the one they play after tambourine man... please help
zuky12 1 month ago
@zuky12 positively 4th street.
BobDylansNumber1Fan 1 month ago
jonah never got to him
myfanniejigglesaboot 1 month ago
@myfanniejigglesaboot you FOOL! hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!
myfanniejigglesaboot 1 month ago
He definitively sold his soul to the devil
Mattydilly 1 month ago
Why does he look so mad?
bleeda2 1 month ago
@bleeda2 aww, he's not mad, he's just INTENSE.  LOL
kenleycloud 1 month ago
anyone who doesn't like dylan has no understanding what he has done... anyone who does a protest, it has already been done by dylan
skuzeskinw 1 month ago
Love him.  Always did and always will.
boomerlady 1 month ago
@boomerlady Ditto, but I've always been In Love with him. Shh, he doesn't know.
kenleycloud 1 month ago
@lionsome who's to say
song4night 1 month ago
commenting on Bob really brightens my day- makes me feel important, like someone special, like someone out there does care. I named 2 of my kids after him and may name 19 more.
drumheadcircle 1 month ago
@drumheadcircle 19 more?... u fuckin entitlement sleezebucket ..get the fuck outta here, u handout devouring slob!
leonakita 1 month ago
modern times is a great album and Workingmans Blues 2 is a masterpiece...he is really modest to say that!!!!
pedroqueiroz1000 1 month ago
no thats speed robert z
shellylovelace 1 month ago
worship and totally copy the lying thing, it works,
shellylovelace 1 month ago
Dylan said in a resent interview that he never believed a single word that he wrote. that his only ambition was to 'make it'.
(Up to that point I had one each of every album and CD including his first (which sold less than 5000 copies. I had met him at Alan Lomax Jr's place a week before his Carnegie Hall concert.)
That is the exact point at which I lost all interest in him.his lyrics, his music.
thetoonaculaarstore 1 month ago
@thetoonaculaarstore Then you miss the entire point of Art.
nottwozero 1 month ago
@thetoonaculaarstore
Hi i was just wondering if you know when or where dylan said that about not believing anything he wrote.
Thanks
sidvidkid 1 week ago
Come on dylan theres still a great song or five left inside you
mrmagic1989 1 month ago
the majic of methamphetamine
earwax8toecheese 2 months ago
What happened to Bob Dylan?
Seventy some odd fucking years, that's what happened to him.
Aging ain't for pussy's.
rubbersole79 2 months ago 2
@rubbersole79
Damn right. People evolve and his music has evolved. It takes time for some people to catch up. Cut him some slack, respect him for the gifts that he has given.
torreyjeff 2 months ago
Jewnetics for the win...
Arthur Miller, Chagall, Einstein, Bohr, Salk, Dylan....Marx....
Need I go on.
The 20th century in the west was largely dominated by Jews...which is ironic considering the holocaust bisected the century. Yes folks, one standard deviation in IQ is just that important.
zaxx19 2 months ago
@zaxx19
This is what comes of having been Chosen. Jews are the best of people, and the worst of people. Some of the people you itemize are frauds or criminals, some are geniuses, but all rely absolutely either on having done a deal with YHVH, or with LCFR. And which holocaust are you talking about ? The one the jews suffered, or the infinitely worse one one they inflicted ? A recent scientific article took Israeli soldiers, and found that their IQ on average was, well, just average...
timwebb1000 2 months ago
@timwebb1000
Was it Salk or Einstein that was a fraud?
You so mad...its ok.
Lubavitchers and Haredi having 6 kids a couple at 21 now....Askenazic petrie dishes of brain power. In 100 yrs barring genetic engineering the offspring of these children will completely dominate any intellectual endeavor..just as their great great grandparents had before them.
zaxx19 1 month ago
In about '56 or '57. my dad told Bobby (then Zimmerman) , when he asked him, that he should go to NYC, The Village, etc., if he really wanted to make it in folk music . .
GregERobertson 2 months ago
Can someone please tell me where the video of "It's Alright, Ma" is from?
vedderfan94 2 months ago
@vedderfan94 From the dvd "Don't Look Back"
chrussy68 2 months ago
Dylan (that sort of "stream of consciousness" aspect) was a product of his time. Naked. Bold.
Real.
And, unfortunately for us, the times, they DID a-change...
BobertBilliams 2 months ago
What happened to Bob Dylan?
He has aged, we all lose our physical strength and mental capacity when older... There is nothing mysterious or mystical about it.
jesusisaklingon 2 months ago
@jesusisaklingon He still is a rockstar, he played with Mark Knopfler a little while back in Denmark.
TheRyannosaurus 2 months ago
The time was ripe for a Dylan. Creative, opinionated,talented,observant,poetic,
confident, did I say talented. He has every right to be stuck up. No one else comes close.
theonlywaltz 2 months ago
"The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit." John 3:8
jimmietfreeway 2 months ago
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I believe Bob was referring to God. Satan is not a chief commander in the world of we would not exist. satan is definitely not the chief commander in the spirit world. He doesnt take it for granted because he is grateful. It is not uncommon for people to ask God for things. I think is important for anyone who sees this to watch the whole interview before you pass judgement. Why would the devil be edited from the interview before he is asked who he bargained with. It doesnt make sense
eysofastrnjr 3 months ago
Yes,Uncle Bob was, and is, the real deal, and a much more modest man than he is given credit for. For my money some of his later stuff is just as good. Jokerman was up there and Time Out of Mind was a brilliant album, I think.
Tobytwirl1000 3 months ago 15
I think he can still do it.
thepeddlernowspeaks 3 months ago
Why do people always have to be all morose and look for a "sold my soul to the devil" connection!? Crime in It'ly! He has a gift! A gift for song and poetry with the sting of reality to it!
That's a gift from the good side of the tracks, and he probably never knows when he'll do it again because that's how those giftings are. That's because he's not the source, God is. I know everybody hates like hell hearing that, but it is true whether you believe it or not!
66LifesMistress77 3 months ago
It's even true whether he believes it or not. And there seem to be seasons where the gift is more active than others, and some seasons where it seems downright nonexistant. It's like, it's dormant.
66LifesMistress77 3 months ago
@LetsTakeArideOut still sounds like Dylan, no pretending, honest. if any artist was as sought after as he was, going overboard with people trying to pry into his private life, guess any one of them would develop a level of "prickdom." its in the dude's personality, he's sarcastic, so what! if you want to surf around spreading you're good cheer and opinions on stuck up pricks, "takearideout" of here and go visit a marilyn manson video, you'd fit right in there. : ) have a nice day.
tomcaat1 3 months ago
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Holy shit!! Dylan channeled those songs through ritualistic ceramony's that SATAN himself wrote.. Gotta read between the lines of this whole epic interview. I doubt his handlers were happy with his honesty here.
THXcooper 3 months ago
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THXcooper 3 months ago
Dylan is always magic.....
TheNellamaria 3 months ago
Dylan;s voice is ruined -- Always loved listening to his music and still think that it is great; wonderful songwriter but never liked the arrogance that came along with fortune and fame that was not there at the very beginning. Great artist but would never shell out my hard-earned doe for his concert these days. I l loved to sing a lot of his tunes when I was a very young teen back in those halcyon flower power days. Even my conservative family saw that his words conveyed power and genius.
thefreedomlass 3 months ago
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a good conspiracy theory website: ItWasTyped. com
Rational, intelligent people welcome!
culturebully3 3 months ago
he's so coool!
MART0613 3 months ago
His use of the tobacco drug destroyed his voice. BAN THE ILLEGAL TOBACCO DRUG, NOW! PROSECUTE THE TOBACCO PUSHERS, TOO!
tripjet999 3 months ago
@tripjet999 I think it was more than Tobacco my friend lol
tatethompson1234 3 months ago
2011--My whole life: Anti-war protests, constant wars, mothers crying. My whole life. I was a teenager when he cut his first album.
liagarden 3 months ago
I think he's 352 different people.
ferociousgumby 3 months ago
@mobster you mean 40 years should not change a persons looks? be prepared ... ;-)
Togethertroughlife 3 months ago 2
Incredible honesty, and humility. Bob Dylan is real.
2vintage68 3 months ago 35
@2vintage68 You're an idiot if you believe "Bob Dylan is real".
Robbie Robertson called him plastic man for a reason.
amysita77 2 weeks ago
@amysita77
Hi i was wondering if you know why robertson called dylan "plastic", or if you know when or where he said it?
Thanks
sidvidkid 1 week ago
look at dylan in the 60s and then look at him in 90s up until now its like two different people
mobster14914101 3 months ago
@mobster14914101 Wait until you are over 60! for 7 years i don't recognize my own face in the mirror! Very disconcerting. All of a sudden (in the last year) i have become old. Remember, 50 is the youth of old age. Do what you want now. You may not be able to when you reach 65. Don't wait for retirement. Build something for yourself.
liagarden 3 months ago
@liagarden Truer words have not been said! Take it from a 62 year old.
vsibirsky 3 months ago
rock on bob you are one of the best.>!!
bakersfieldmusicnow 3 months ago
He tricked me. I can't stand him. I never want to hear one word of his ever again. It isn't bad enough that he openly sold his soul...then he tours putting up the Egyptian eye of Horath. That's just plain evil. He was a jewish person. They were enslaved by the egyptians; or is that a joke to him too(or on him I should say on him ). I named my kids after this evil clown. I was a kid when these interviews were on. That and I never had/watched tv- I'm blown away. Pity his son.
drumheadcircle 3 months ago
@drumheadcircle posting two bullshit paragraphs in the same page? Somebody is seeking attention
zabrak999 3 months ago
@drumheadcircle You named your kids after him. lol. Your comment has made my night,I've given it the 'thumbs up'.Named your kids after him lol.
henryporter101 3 months ago
Bob is so cool. He's just too leftist. Singing for MLK, etc.
knightschwartz 3 months ago
I would like to tell him to his ugly wrinkled face...What a let down loser freak he is. A satanist- and that's a joke? He's a liar...Who doesn't any famous people joke on God's side...No they joke that it's all made up- no heaven or hell. I wish someone would smack his ugly devil ass kissin face for me. The muslims act more respectable than most Americans...I'm not a muslim. There's no excuse for Bob and any immigrant would say so too.
drumheadcircle 3 months ago
@drumheadcircle haha your a joke! 
JarynRingo 3 months ago
looks like Vincent Price
gezzad 3 months ago
Genius: simple music, beatnic lyrics and story teller voice.
surfstomp 3 months ago
His crap aint that poetic or great- get real, a 6 yr old can do that nonsense crap. What has he done since? He wrote one song w/ black gospel in the background...and he's some freedom fighter? What a joke- he is laughing at us and the devil he "sold his soul to"...all the way to the bank. He sure made a come back after that devil remark. Pray for his soul and his poor beautiful son.
drumheadcircle 3 months ago
@drumheadcircle hey you, are you nuts, are you kidding or what the hell???
sticakki 3 months ago
 here it is, you know you where going to anyway, watch?v=E1nSKmh507E Bob Dylan - it's alright, ma ...
TheMrAFiles 4 months ago
you have to commend his candor.
kingjojothegreat 4 months ago
What he means is: there was never any sort of rational method to what I did, so now I can't replicate it.
Shakespeare could still write when he was close to death...until your minds goes you can still crank out something if there's a method. When you just spew some gibberish bullshit and the LSD stops being so effective, you can't make the "magic" anymore. That's code for, I used to have random bad poetry pop in my head, now I don't. Good poetry is a method. You get better with time
bwood21390 4 months ago
I know what Bob Dylan is talking about. It just happens. A line of poetry just arrives, you write it down and suddenly it's all just writing itself.
LoquaciousInkSlinger 4 months ago
it's interesting how many artists mention 'magick' when asked about how they do what they do, even lady gaga seems to think she is helped by some dead relative or other... i do my shit on my own, it's mundane, but it's mine.
cwross1976 4 months ago
I always heard about Dylan, growing up how much everyone loved him. But then when I was 15 or so I heard the Bleach album for the first time and this little blond heroin addict changed my life forever. To each their own I suppose.
Aggrevaine 4 months ago
@Aggrevaine That's pretty sad and depressing man, I don't have any thing to say other than I hope your life is better now.
LiberTBo 4 months ago
well he can stop singing begous his voice sucks this days last night dylan was a focking waiste of my focking time
poseidon26ful 4 months ago
He may have sold his soul. 
mespacetoday 4 months ago
Bob Dylan, I don't suppose you'll ever read this, but all I'll say is you made my life a great deal richer from the time I was a child, and it continues. I am constantly inspired, uplifted, transported by your poetry, your music.
Yes, perhaps the older stuff has the greater poetry, but I like some of your recent stuff too.
Come to far SW France sometime!
laboheme26 4 months ago
this is how steve jobs love listening to his songs and i also addicted.
gck86 4 months ago
the 20th century's greatest poet.........he's very realistic even about this own persona,status, & inspiration...........cannot create what just came out of nowhere no matter how hard you try.....when it happens it happens......it can be years until it comes again....maybe never ...otherwise you're pretending.......luckily his immense catalogue can sustain a few careers.....
marbleheadband 4 months ago
@marbleheadband Not sure I would call him the greatest poet of this century. Personally, I find Nick Drake's lyrics to be some of the most beautiful and poetic of the 20th century. I like Bob Dylan, but listening to Nick Drake is a more intimate experience for me. The fragility of Nick Drake's vocal delivery and his beautiful use of symbols from nature is what really gets to me.
doughboycod2 4 months ago
@doughboycod2 i'm not sure i agree but i absolutely see where you're coming from. nick drake was great, and "day is done" is one of the greatest songs from one of the greatest albums of all time.
nickfromCO 4 months ago
KING!
brothersinarms91 4 months ago
you know I think it's called automatic hand writing, something I have and was told by a few people in the know and it all of a sudden is kicked off from your subconcious and there is always a trigger to it I have piles of stuff that musicians have said do something with it not sure how you do that and Bob Dylan with Leonard Cohen the greatest of all time have done it they some thing else.LEGENDS
CRAIGO
aquilae5 4 months ago
@aquilae5
Curious. Conspiracy researcher/free-thinker David Icke has mentioned automatic writing..atleast in his case, it is to do with channeling spirits.
ocarina2boy 4 months ago
you know I think it's called automatic hand writing, something I have and was told by a few people in the know and it all of a sudden is kicked off from your subconcious and there is always a trigger to it I have piles of stuff that musicians have said do something with it not sure how you do that and Bob Dylan with Leonard Cohen the greatest of all time have done it they some thing else.
CRAIGO
aquilae5 4 months ago
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 The most beautiful eyes. Man.
Aliopp74 4 months ago
The most beautiful eyes.
Aliopp74 4 months ago
you don't think you can do it today? umm ummm....: (> when its all said and done folks, Bob can't be too concerned with what you think of him. why not focus on the gargantuan contribution the guy has given us? Just gotta hack away at people all the time, don't we? remember, HE has never claimed greatness, WE did that all by ourselves. the guy's just rolling along doing what turns him on, no pretentiousness, unlike alot of the garbage we got now!
tomcaat1 5 months ago 12
@tomcaat1 to tell the truth and he admits it himself, he is a stuck up prick who needs to pull his head out of his shithole
LetsTakeArideOut 3 months ago
@tomcaat1 What most people that post a video covering Dylans 'magic', they are trying to point out a "sold his soul" connection. He could only do that once. I didn't see it specifically in this one though, but he did talk around it.
SlackerSlayer 3 months ago
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you don't think you can do it now? ummm umm :(>
tomcaat1 5 months ago
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Selling your soul? Come on people. Santa's not real either. He's sad because he doesn't like discussing his past. I think he relates time to mistakes he made, opportunities he missed and decisions he procrastinated into oblivion. He's a respectable man with a very rich career, yet people only want to speak about his first 5 years of songwriting. It's like you have a Pulitzer prize for a PH.D. paper, and people keep asking you about your school reports from 3rd grade.
notpeterhansen 5 months ago
Selling your soul? Come on people. Santa's not real either. He's sad because he doesn't like discussing his past. I think he relates time to mistakes he made, opportunities he missed and decisions he procrastinated into oblivion. He's a respectable man with a very rich career, yet people only want to speak about his first 5 years of songwriting. It's like you have a Pulitzer prize for a PH.D. paper, and people keep asking you about your school reports from 3rd grade.
notpeterhansen 5 months ago
Dylan -- The Beatles
He is the greatest musician and songwriter of all time.
PS if you don't agree, go screw yourself.
Cheers!
direwill 5 months ago
He seems miserable!! He knows he sold his sould and he will never get it back unfortunatly he has to carry on with the deal and keep writing music forever....
aufearsome 5 months ago
arieldove: That's what women do!!
TXGTR 5 months ago
Cleatusbodean: There is. The Tax Man.
TXGTR 5 months ago
What happened to Bob Dylan? The Devil bought him. Didn't you know?
TXGTR 5 months ago
he's really just trying to seem enigmatic; disheveled like a weathered artist, self-deprecating in a way. Why wouldn't he be changed between 17 and 67. everyone is. The world looking forward, the world looking behind and to the near-term unknown future with the weight of several decades of history behind you. What? Do you want Baba Wawa to come on and make him cry, do ya?
bugietube 5 months ago
he can do other things now? what exactly are those things??
and i'm sure he can still make amazing poems, he just gave up on himself and his voice.
dablueman21 5 months ago
@dablueman21 How the hell did he give up on his voice? It was all that smoking he did back in the 60s and 70s
SmashBrosFan19 5 months ago
@SmashBrosFan19 Agreed
dablueman21 5 months ago
I've been penetrated by sigfred and roy's magic. it was like a nightmare ive been trying to forget. they just laughed and laughed
mbirxeotn 5 months ago
wow
SetoneSetone 5 months ago
dylan looks like adam sandler here
mcshulad 5 months ago
You get old and it all falls away so why keep going producing some awful material. Why does he do it, for the money, for the fame, because he has to? We love Bob from the Sixties and a little after that well, he said once upon a time that he was a song and dance man. I guess he has to keep on going until he dies, good bad or different, maybe difficult albums. The sadness of a long distance singer, eh what?!The sadness of all creative people.
mudrooroo2 5 months ago
he's doing many other things now, he couldnt have done then.
yeolejuazman 5 months ago
ed bradley does a great job interviewing bob,,,,i appreciate bob candor and honesty,,,,
ChiroQuacker 5 months ago
His voice is soooo deep!
Spinalcarker53 5 months ago
I think that it is just , you right masterpieces , it gets to a point where you can't top it over and over and over again , and thats what he is feeling
dcdude171 5 months ago
dylan is always SO honest. he answers the essential question. in a way that might be difficult to understand if you havent had his life, his skills, his career, his fame. but he answers as HIMSELF, not as a rock star.
Jaakk0S 5 months ago
My mother is from Frisco and she knew friends of Dillan a little before he blew up, people that knew him, she told me, were sure that he did not write his music, this could sound like blasphemy for Dillan fans but she was told by these people that there was no way he wrote that music himself.
alexandreleverrier 5 months ago
@alexandreleverrier you dont even know how to spell his name
100Dundeee 5 months ago
@100Dundeee
what does that have to do with anything ?
alexandreleverrier 4 months ago
@alexandreleverrier because you are stupid so why would we listen to your stupid talk
100Dundeee 4 months ago
@100Dundeee
oh I see now, what smart answer.
alexandreleverrier 4 months ago
@2:11 truth
hamarutax 5 months ago
Watching him made me sad. He seems like a shadow.
MrJetaime555 5 months ago
Why the title? Great interview snippet, stupid title.
Sonnenwirthle 5 months ago
he sold his soul.
shitfuck1987 5 months ago
That's youth for you. For every kid who became Bob Dylan, there's a million others just as creative who died of suicide.
mlawren7 5 months ago
Aww, why does he seem sad? I love you Bob! You're the king of music.
synysterjazmyngates 6 months ago
i love his honesty and candor here...very very few great artists would be so forthright...
the interviewer did a great job RIP ed bradley
ChiroQuacker 6 months ago
hes got a lot of good songs over the years.... its just that since the 60s people went more away from folk and into pop and heavier rock...
TheDilligan 6 months ago
take drugs and end up like this...
damroach 6 months ago
@damroach I agree about drugs being bad, but you shoot yourself in the foot if you use Dylan for your example. Millions of people would like to "end up" like him. He knows how to act. He also knows about what we're up against. No one in full knowledge could act like they've "got it made," knowing what being aware and realistic reveals.
deaddoc 6 months ago
devil.
LauraGomesMovies 6 months ago
...that's enough, now stop it.
paulpellicci 6 months ago
bob dylan has written incredible songs in the past ten years. it's not all the same stuff from the '60's. he is a force of nature and it's the fact he changes that makes him what he is. there's never been another like him.
davidk4616 6 months ago 3
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He never said he couldn't write classics, though, just that he couldn't write some of the kinds of songs he wrote in the 60's.
quinntheeskimo123 6 months ago
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quinntheeskimo123 6 months ago
it's dark magic
threewagons 6 months ago
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Repent....get baptized in Jesus name......get filled with holyghost before its to late (Act 2:38
Gis1able 6 months ago
creeeeeepy
sammyBBes 6 months ago
this clip is priceless...dylan admitting he cant write classics like he did in his great past....
while paul simon, elton say they write as well if not better now....yeah sure....and i look like brad pitt.
ChiroQuacker 6 months ago
cool, wish there were more TV appearances by bob.
does anybody have the 1986 interview he did for Australian TV with George Negus?
it used to be on you tube but its not anymore.
cant find it anywhere man
MrDecibels82 6 months ago
a brilliant poet!
Rawego 6 months ago
All new Dylan fans should give Love & Theft a good listen. So timeless
themooddisorders 6 months ago
he should have stared in the dark night as batman
fredmomma 6 months ago
Only Bob Dylan can say "penatrating magic" and not sound like a Harry Potter sex offender.
mikebarryrout 6 months ago 2
Well of course you can't do it now Dylan your 70 something your brain's pretty much tired out from all the thinking and writing you done when you was younger. Happens to everyone, that's why they say cherish your youth, cos that's the time you can make the true impact on the world.
Redtsar999 6 months ago
@Redtsar999 LMFAO
lemonmon2 6 months ago
Early songs are great, but man are his latest albums good. Treat yourself to them, too.
ColdRoses 6 months ago
I'm going to see Dylan live in august! :DDDD Bobbyyyyy ahhhhh! Bob Bob Bob Bob!
MetrazolElectricity 6 months ago
Im sure the massive amounts of drugs he took over a span of 30-40yrs did some damage to his brain. Idk if this is still the case now but it was a well known fact his son who sings for the Wallflowers wants nothing to do with his father which at Dylans age knows he hasnt got much time left. Just my opinion
Jesse6O 6 months ago
@Jesse6O If you read the RS interview of a few years back you'll see that while Jakob ("his son who signs for the Wallflowers" ) wont go into much detail about his father what he does say is positive and he points to the success of Bob's children as evidence that he was in fact a good father. Also, more recently RS magazine reported how Bob was at his grandson's (Jakobs son's) kindergarten classes playing for the kids - i thought Jakob wanted nothing to do with him? Get your facts straight!
GregPDC1 6 months ago
@Jesse6O You are full of crap. Jakob wants nothing to do with you fool!
Dave897456 6 months ago
theres something dark here. seems like theres something in his mind thats bothering him.
Cleatusbodean 6 months ago 36
@Cleatusbodean Well, if you know his history, you'll know that he was the first performer in the 60s to have death threats made. It was during his English tour. You could review the Scorsese documentary, "No Direction Home." Dylan has always been oblique and minimal about himself and his abilities since that time. He still makes incredible music and writes just as well. Check out Love and Theft album and two since then. Dylan is Dylan. He's a survivor and no fool.
deaddoc 6 months ago
@deaddoc thanks for the info!ï»