Mar 272010
Yeah, it’s the sound and the words. Words don’t interfere with it. They- they-punctuate it. You know, they give it purpose. [Pause] And all the ideas for my songs, all the influences, all come out of that. All the influences, all the feelings, all the ideas come from that. I’m not doing it to see how good I can sound, or how perfect the melody can be, or how intricate the details can be woven or how perfectly written something can be. I don’t care about those things.
-Bob Dylan
Dylan: I don’t know if I’ve ever been happy if we’re talking straight. I don’t know … I mean … happy? I don’t consider myself happy and I don’t consider myself unhappy, I’ve just never thought of life in terms of happiness and unhappiness. It just never occurred to me.
B.K.: Do you think of it in terms of growth?
Dylan: No! I never think in terms of growth, I tell you what I do think though, that you never stop anywhere, there’s no place to stop in. You know them places at the side of the road that you can stop, they’re just an illusion.
B.K.: The road goes on …
Dylan: Yeah, you’ve got to get back on the road. And you may want to stop but you can’t stay there.
B.K.: When you talk about getting back on the road, isn’t that in a sense growth … or at least it’s movement. From point A to point B.
Dylan: Yeah, that’s growth. But what’s growth? I mean everything grows, that’s just the way life is, life just grows. You know, it grows and it dies, it lives and it dies. Whenever you get to a plateau, that’s not it, you got to go on to the next one. You can’t stay nowhere, there’s no place to stay, there’s no place that will keep you.
B.K.: Because of boredom or because that’s the way it is?
Dylan: No, because that’s just the nature of things …
B.K.: So you see yourself just moving onward?
Dylan: I see everybody like that, I see the whole world that way. That which doesn’t do that is stuff that’s … that’s just dead.
B.K.: Ha … what’s that line? Those that are not busy being born are …
Dylan: … busy dying? What a line!
I’m really into it, tahnks for this great stuff!