Bob Dylan interview - They did not HEAR the songs!

[green95gt]

i don't think whitney houston saw herself the way others did. i think many folks elevated to this level of fame feel the same way.

[natmanprime]

@infamoussero 'rock' IS folk. it became 'loud folk' ever since it dropped the "'n' roll" bit at the end.

yknow, when it got real white...

: )

[BeatleUniversity]

When Bob says "isn't that something?" at 1:05 I have always been tempted to think he was putting this interview on as if it was all a game to him and he was just playing with the press. By the way, I met this interviewer at LaGuardia Airport and he was a cold snob.

[CoffeeBeatsTea]

@infamoussero folk rock. It's still rock

[kwixotic]

somercet1

I too had to LMAO when I heard that line!

[walenski2404]

I think they bumped Ed Bradley off, or I maybe wrong.

[walenski2404]

.......... ushering in the new era of antichrist. Is he responsible for allowing himself to be an instrument of the darker forces? or was it all in just good fun.

[DavelovesRealMusic]

Incredibly HONET and truthful interview..Dylan is speaking from his Soul here...when he says "Aint That Something" that people did not hear the songs...he means they made their OWN assumptions about what he meant by his early songs..but Bob never dicussed the meanings o when he says "Aint That Something" hes saying--You had me WRONG..your 60's never really existed.

[mhasting22]

Bob Dylan is one of the greatest lyricists of all time. He spoke of the here and now. Just enjoy and think.

[synysterjazmyngates]

Bob, I hear your songs exactly the way you tell them. I don't think hard, I just listen and enjoy. I think me and you would get along!

[TheDevilsSwitchboard]

Sorry Bob...you were the one who didn't HEAR the songs because you were too busy singing and playing them!

[TheThroney]

Bob Dylan bothers me. I mean he has written some great songs and has shared some great ideas but god damnit i dont care if you're an artist, you just cant sing about certain things going on in the world without becoming a part of them, especially if your words take a direct position on said topics with a voiced opinion to a wide audience without people listening to your ideas when your words ring true.. Am I seeing this wrong? Blasphemy, I know.

[heathandgreg]

@TheThroneybut you can just sing about things without becoming part of them. we was just writing them becse he was inspired by the time. the songs were just a refection of the culture that he surrounded himself with (grinage village, bohemians scene). he felt he was being portrayed as a profit or a revolutionary figure but he was just taking part in the musical tradition of singing and songwriting. thats why he stopped makng topical songs in 65 because he was sick of havng to represent a movment

[Voodoochil111111]

This interview is painful to watch. You can see Dylan getting more and more annoyed as it goes on.

[Drtomterrific]

(Continued from below)... Kubrick in 2001. Was Beethoven a nazi? of course not.

The power of art is in it's ability to allow us to project into it and see reflected in it what is deepest and most meaningful to us.

[Drtomterrific]

It is the nature of Art to trigger in the perceiver feelings, thoughts, ideas and experiences (gestalts) that have deep meaning for the perceiver. And the experience of perceiving can be completely different for each person. The artist has very little control over how the audience will experience his work. Consider Beethoven's Ninth. There's a great documentary that traces it's influence through history,

Showing how it inspires both good people and bad. The nazis used it but so did Kubrick in 2

[pachacutti]

terrible interview. You can watch every interview on youtube with Dylan and they all ask him the same lame question. Do you see yourself as a spokesman. Why do you deny the spokesman? They obviously don't pay attention to the previous 45 years of interviews or don't respect his position as an artist.

[y0utUBeH8r]

@pachacutti its all commercial now, the people wanna see the interview with the legend, and i bet the advertising spots during that interview went for insane amounts of money... its how stuff is now

[bamboosa]

I really, really wanted the interviewer to ask Bob about "Masters of War" or at least play a fragment of it.

[flowerbabyrose]

Bob, I respect you the most of all musicians of modern age but I have to say- you were and are sooo damn sexy to me!

Btw, I don't get it why the people are so confused about you. You are simple to me. Happy Birthday!!!

[01thrilla]

This man is a genious when it comes to song writing! , i never took time to listen to him, as i was too young, but since the last year or so (im 21 now) ive paid a lot more attention to him, also i like "Loue Reid" & "Velvet Underground" , My dads off to Bobs Dylans 70th year Birthday Bash over here in London, Still...Bob Dylan "its allright Mamma", and " All i really want to do" is my fav!!! His songs always put me in a good mood, thats what music should do!

[logangstaol666]

whos the interviewer?!!!

[kidrock119]

@logangstaol666 ed bradley. he passed away a couple years after the interview was done. cancer

[66LifesMistress77]

No wonder he felt so misunderstood...Still don't know when he lied, though.

I mean, everybody lies, sometime. How much intentionally, and how much on purpose, and why varies like the rainbow, but the intentions of the heart, and why did you do this matters more than anything...

[Whackerrobbie]

Dylan is as the author of the bible,

He will only reveal to those who he chooses

[SteelerEagleFan]

@TheFlanaganD No, he was a poet and a folk singer

[xoxjenaxox]

@SteelerEagleFan no he was a song and dance man ;) haha

[SteelerEagleFan]

@xoxjenaxox Yeah, you get it

[cullinane8888]

bob is stuck up his own hole his music is for gays and freaks that think life is bob lol

[FantomasXZ7]

He reminds me of Picasso; a hypocritical genius who pretended to be a commie but lived like a king and treated his women like dirt!!! In 1983 Dylan wrote the racist song “Neighborhood Bully” glorying the illegal Israeli settlers in the West bank… GOOD BYE BOB… HELLO MR. ZIMMERMAN!!!

[FreddyBigMac]

its obvious isn't it? He filled a niche...he knew what kind of music wasn't being made at the time and utilized that knowledge. He knew he could put pure poetry behind a few guitar chords and have it resonate with people, he was very successful at that. Deep down there was no meaning, no call to power. It was intended to please the listener...Entertainment pure and simple

[omfg4000]

@FreddyBigMac Bullshit. Something has cahnged in him.

[Camboza11]

i believe he said that himself in an interview somewhere on youtube, he did folk originally because he knew he could do it better than anyone else, he studied roll and roll and minesotta uiversity. I'm sure he planned all along to break out into a rock type of music that had a heavy emphasis on lyrics as his later stuff does

[THthefirst]

@Camboza11 i think when he met the beatles he wanted to be a rock and roll star - he liked the fame and money and started wearing sunglasses

[chilDish06]

he looks sad

[pwnagekills71]

@chilDish06 Yeah, he also looks like a fuckin stoner lol

[YGGH9]

"? aint that somethin"

[ovthegr8]

pete seeger and woody guthrie wrote protest songs just like dylan, these men were great folksingers and poets who didnt receive these high-falootin titles and, compared to dylan...gargantuan followings. I believe that dylan just wanted to be known and remembered as a man like seeger or guthrie, a man who's songs were listened to as songs and who's words were understood as just another man's opinion equal to someone else's.

[ovthegr8]

bob dylan is a folksinger and poet. what pushed him into fame were millions of people who thought he was this "spokesman for a generation" and "prophet". once dylan realized that he was famous because of these absurd titles he knew were false (after all, I think someone knows if they are or arent a prophet who directly receives a revelation), its only natural that someone wouldnt want to answer questions from the very people that fed the fire of the misconstrued image people created of him.

[tsiaotsiao]

For John Lennon and Paul McCartney to idolized him shows he was a Mountain of Talent.

[penguinx9]

This interviewer and his ilk obviously didn't "hear the songs". Those who listened saw him not as a prophet or spokesman, but as a poet and a folksinger and a rock and roll musician and a genius

[Tigerlily21]

"ain't that something?" Dylan is awesome. lol.

[bakerboisp]

Yall are trying to make up a reason for this dude having backwards answers.

He clearly says his songs have the opposite meaning to what people took them for.

What he says next is confusing. He says that if you examine his Songs they dont have anything in them that says he's a spokesman for any one or anything.

The interviewer says the people saw the message but Dylan says they must have not listened to the Songs.

So did they not have a meaning? Or was the real meaning intended missed?

[Showtime6688]

@bakerboisp In the end, I (and I alone, this being my personal opinion) believe that Dylan just wrote songs about his own experiences in his life and how he felt about the world around him, but I don't think that makes you a spokesperson. All he did in his songs was say "this is how I see it." But to me that was only 50% of what he did, the other 50% (like any great musician) was good old fashioned storytelling, sheer fantasy (and in some instances) based in reality.

[randomtragedyx]

nobody wants to be figured out. It loses the mystery in ourselves

[IAmSoTight1]

you people are stupid. does anyone realize that early rock is distorted out in the open. Fuck all this bullshit! Punks Not Dead!

[magicfarawaytree1]

He's not an entertainer. In his interview with Playboy Magazine he gets pretty frustrated when the interviewer asks him about being a 'performer'. And he's not really. He never put on a show, he just sung his songs.

And people tried to cage him or label him and he really doesn't like it. His answers are so laden with philosophy it's like another language almost, but I wouldn't say he's hard to understand (except when he doesn't explain his thoughts). He talks like an existentialist.

[ricorreze]

@magicfarawaytree1 Exactly. I think he was existentialist. A little bit of an opportunist also ;-), I mean how many people could've resisted to walk down that fame path, he was practically shoved. His spiritual awakening in the late '70's is really interesting and that 'gospel' music he wrote and sung was probably the most transperant work he's ever done. Most people just overlook it though ;-)

[bvallier100]

Love Bob Dylan. Everyone who is anyone in music does a Dylan song.

[959up1up]

I love Bob Dylan .

[acphenom]

Dylan's a hard nut to crack for sure...I think he just sees the value though in keeping himself free from responsibilities that he doesn't want to take on (spokesperson for blah blah blah etc.) and enjoys being an entertainer. I think he might be able to tell us who he is, end our futile code-cracking, but where's the entertainment in that?

He's not just entertaining as he is, he's challenging and inspirational

[fireflyzip]

yeah, his final comment is great

[blasterbomber]

@TheFlanaganD exactly my friend

[stonybrook4444]

He's trying to tell us that his music was made by the devil. He says "they must not have heard the songs" meaning the melody took over and the words were subconsciously worshiping the devil.

[toddolavi]

It is so surprising how dylan has managed to keep himself so much apart from the media....1 or 2, or 3 interviews in 30 years...

[JayDeeDonuts10]

hahahahaahahaha

[somercet1]

Dylan is a stone wall when he wants to be. But that last line, "Ain't that somethin'?" ROTFLMAO

[dablueman21]

@somercet1 i was thinking the same exact thing.

[tufiboy]

he's just fuckin' with that guy...

[blueballsredhair]

@tufiboy I used to think the same thing, but the more I watch, the more I think this is Dylan actually trying to answer these questions like a normal person. I tend to believe that he's just a genius who is so completely absorbed in his own world and his own manner of perception that he is incapable of what we see as normal human interaction.