Anyone catch the interview with Bob Dylan on TeeVee yesterday?

[icymist]

He said that he never wrote all those early songs....that they were 'magic' and 'part of a deal'. He also says he could never wright like that again.

You think he's 'jivin' us?

"Equality, I spoke their word
as if a wedding vow
Oh but I was so much older then
I'm younger than that now!"

[StClone]

1. God is his co-pilot now

I was disappointed that he would not give credit to his own skills only to another power (magic and God). Maybe he was being humble.

[NashVegas]

3. Ain't Nothing Wrong With That

Often your most creative work comes when you aren't thinking about it, you're just doing it. Pulling shit out of your ass, some unidentifiable deep, within place of genius. I used to think of it as 'the hand of god.'

[jeff30997]

2. "magic and part of a deal"

Yeah he signed a pact with the guy who sold him all those magic pills.

[pinkpops]

4. lots of creative peop[le feel like they are channeling when they

create.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

5. You know what he's talking about

He didn't say he "didn't write them" He said they wrote themselves.

You know that feeling - you get into that gorgeous creative zone, and the words just seem to fall into place. Artists experience it, as do athletes. There is no time, and suddenly, you discover that you've done something that doesn't seem to have come from you.

It's like magic. It's euphoric, and, having experienced it myself on a very small scale, I can tell you that someone once read me a passage from a book. I thought it was really good.

I had written it. I didn't recognize my own prose.

So, that's what Dylan's talking about.

I thought he endured that interview (which was a rerun) fairly well, since he clearly wasn't into it. But, contracts are contracts, and his book was published by Simon and Schuster which is owned by the same corporation that owns CBS. So, he had to give "Sixty Minutes" that interview back when his book came out.

[icymist]

6. Thanks for that insight.

I would've never realized that he was under contract for that interview. He very much looked as if he wanted to be elsewhere.

[bowens43]

7. I saw him perform sunday night.

he can't sing those olds anymore, maybe it was a deal with the devil and it's done.

[graywarrior]

8. Saw the interview Sunday night and saw it several months ago

They seemed different somehow. Read his book. He gives a good explanation about writing songs.

[icymist]

9. Good idea.

I've been so busy lately that I hadn't even realized he had a book out. I look for it.

BTW, That's a terrible thing to do to a duck!