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A brilliant 1989 album, Oh Mercy; some career retrospectives; and two albums of American folk songs, with just Bob Dylan and his guitar and harmonica. All that culminated in the Grammy-winning comeback album, Time Out of Mind (1997). Once again, just as Dylan seemed to be out of it, he was back at the top of his game.

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Bob Dylan wrote in his elliptical memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, he was washed up in the 1980s, no longer a commercial success, and no longer putting out good work.

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The confessional singer-songwriter movement of the 1970s was in full swing, and Bob Dylan’s emotional album [ Blood on the Tracks] resonated with the times. There would be other hits, but never the same alchemy of emotion and time.

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I don’t think there’s enough guns.

“I don’t think there’s enough guns.” Bob Dylan

Ah, current music. What would that be? Ah, really, a lot of it sounds defective to me. It makes me restless.

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In the meantime [1965-67], [Bob] Dylan was again writing some of the best love songs in the genre, like “Visions of Johanna,” “Just Like a Woman,” and “Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands.”

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We shouldn’t confuse singers and performers with actors. Actors will say, “My character this, and my character that.” Like beating a dead horse. Who cares about the character? Just get up and act. You don’t have to explain it to me.

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Every singer has three or four or five techniques, and you can force them together in different combinations. Some of the techniques you discard along the way, and pick up others. But you do need them. It’s just like anything. You have to know certain things about what you’re doing that other people don’t know. Singing has to do with techniques and how many you use at the same time. One alone doesn’t work. There’s no point to going over three. But you might interchange them whenever you feel like it. It’s a bit like alchemy.

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Early on, before rock ‘n’ roll, I listened to big band music – anything that came over the radio – and music played by bands in hotels that our parents could dance to. We had a big radio that looked like a jukebox, with a record player on the top. The radio/record player played 78rpm records. When we moved to that house, there was a record on there, with a red label. It was Bill Monroe, or maybe it was the Stanley Brothers. I’d never heard anything like that before. Ever. And it moved me away from all the conventional music that I was hearing.

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Sometimes you get out from behind the wheel and let someone else step on the gas.

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I think of rock ‘n’ roll as a combination of country blues and swing band music, not Chicago blues, and modern pop.

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Up north, you could find these radio stations with no name on the dials that played pre-rock ‘n’ roll things – country blues. We would hear Slim Harpo or Lightnin’ Slim and gospel groups, the Dixie Hummingbirds, the Five Blind Boys of Alabama. I was so far north, I didn’t even know where Alabama was.

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It’s not dark yet But it’s getting there

“It’s not dark yet But it’s getting there” Bob Dylan

Just in time for Bob Dylan to recoil from the attention, leave the city for Woodstock, and turn his back on fame.

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America was founded on the backs of slaves.

“America was founded on the backs of slaves.” Bob Dylan

His [Bob Dylan] humour was dry and splendid.

“His [Bob Dylan] humour was dry and splendid.” Bob Dylan

The exploitation and superficiality of mainstream America is the object not of [Bob] Dylan’s hipster scorn, but of an apocalyptic parable of holy fools and righteous thieves – the kind of imagery that Dylan’s later work would explore more fully.

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If you wanted to, it would be easy to find some crappy lyrics [of Bob Dylan] from the Eighties to undermine the Nobel Prize.

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“Tangled Up in Blue,” shifts perspective several times during the song to tell a “tangled” version of [Bob] Dylan’s marriage and dissolution.

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It was [meeting with Nicolas Sarkozy] like looking at my mirror image.

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