Bob Dylan

You can’t imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there’s no fitting into it now.

Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around – the music and the ideas.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.