" My burden is heavy,
My dreams are beyond
control......"
(Bob Dylan, 1995)
Some
30 years ago, Dylan's work mattered more intensely to more ppl
than anyone's does today.
"He's not busy being, is busy dying"
he sang, and young ppl yearning for
a role model and an imaginery friend
hung on every word as he took on
and shucked off persona after
persona.
" I never figured my music to blend
into the culture in any kind of
way"
Dylan says now. But back then it
was hard to tell whether he was
mirroring '60s youth culture or
actually creating it.
He offered ready-to-wear attitudes
and ready-to-cherish slogans.
"Even the President of United States
must have to stand naked"
"leave your stepping stones behind".
And paradoxically,
"Don't
follow leaders." :)
On his religion....
" I don't adhere to rabbis,
preachers, evengelists, all of
that. I've learned more from
the songs than I've learned
from any of this kind of
entity. The songs are my lexicon
I believe the songs."
(Bob Dylan, 1997)
"I'd kind of reached the end
of the line. Whatever I'd started
out to do, it wasn't that. I was
going to pack it in."
Then in October 1987, playing
Locarno, Switzerland, with
Tom petty's band and the female
singers, he now says he used to
hide behind. Dylan had his break-
through. It was an outdoor show
he remembers the fog and the
wind--and he stepped to the mike,
a line came into his head.
"It's almost like I heard as a
voice.
It wasn't like it was even me thinking
it. I'm determined to stand,
whether God will deliver me or not.
And all of
sudden everything just exploded.
It
exploded every which way.
And I
noticed that all the people out
there
--I was used to them looking at
the
girl singers, they were good looking
girls, you know? and like I say,
I had
them there so I wouldn't feel so
bad.
But when that happened, nobody
was
looking at the girls anymore. they
were
looking at the main mike.After
that is
when I sort of knew: I've got to
go out
and play these songs. Thats just
what I
must do.."
And he's been at it ever since....:)
"I'm determined to
stand, whether God will
deliver me or not."
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