SOMEWHERE LISTENING TO WHAT THE MAN SAID (TL) -- The freewheelin' Bob Dylan talks about music, art and politics with Bill Flanagan. Read the interview at Dylan's Web site and Huffington Post (Jimmy Buffett is one of his favorite songwriters? Really?).
What else did you find compelling about him?
Well, mainly his take on things. His writing style hits you on more than one level. It makes you feel and think at the same time and that is hard to do. He says profoundly outrageous things. He’s looking at a shrunken head inside of a glass case in some museum with a bunch of other people and he’s wondering if any of these people realize that they could be looking at one of their ancestors.
What in his book would make you think he’d be a good politician?
Well nothing really. In some sense you would think being in the business of politics would be the last thing that this man would want to do. I think he had a job as an investment banker on Wall Street for a second - selling German bonds. But he probably could’ve done anything. If you read his book, you’ll know that the political world came to him. It was there to be had.
Do you think he’ll make a good president?
I have no idea. He’ll be the best president he can be. Most of those guys come into office with the best of intentions and leave as beaten men. Johnson would be a good example of that … Nixon, Clinton in a way, Truman, all the rest of them going back. You know, it’s like they all fly too close to the sun and get burned.
You would think that they world have OKd it at da beginning instead of allowing it to go so long without saying a thing and then bringing it back up when it was too late. My bro dont understand it at all.
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Sincerly
Posted by: change want | August 19, 2010 at 04:04 PM