No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
prev.
play.
mark.
next.

:13:00
The desire to be next to him produced
a huge magnet which drew everybody.

:13:06
Young and old.
:13:07
Genius makes its own rules,
and Dylan is a genius.

:13:11
A singing conscience and moral referee,
as well as a preacher.

:13:15
He's also a very embarrassed
young man now, because...

:13:18
It's always embarrassing to sit there
with your feet in cement...

:13:22
while somebody compliments you
either casually or lavishly.

:13:27
But, I've been reading a number of stories
about Bob this afternoon...

:13:31
and they are all of that order.
:13:35
A comment in Billboard,
the trade publication, says:

:13:37
"Dylan's poetry is born
of a painful awareness...

:13:40
"of the tragedy that underlies
the contemporary human condition".

:13:44
Bob, do you sing partly your own songs...
:13:47
and partly other people's,
or where do you get your material?

:13:49
- Well, they're all mine, now.
- You sing all your own material?

:13:52
And how long have you been writing
your own music?

:13:57
For about two years.
:14:01
He came to be as he is
because things needed saying...

:14:05
and the young people were the ones
who wanted to say them.

:14:08
He somehow had an ear on his generation.
:14:11
I don't have to tell you.
You know him, he's yours, Bob Dylan.

:14:18
I ain't looking to compete with you
:14:21
Beat or cheat or mistreat you
:14:26
Simplify you, classify you
:14:30
Deny, defy or crucify you
:14:34
All I really want to do
:14:39
Is, baby, be friends with you
:14:56
I want to say thank you.
:14:57
I want to say thank you.
I want to say thank you, I love you.


prev.
next.