Bob Dylan

[Mister Obvious]

0:28 "The answers to those questions, they've got to be in all the songs I've written."

1:50 "You can cast a spotlight on something and make everybody look that way, and then you come at them from another direction." ... "But that sounds like it's conspiratorial." ... "Yeah it does, don't it?"

2:22 "Everybody does have the choice to make about themselves."

2:40 "Born again by the Spirit from above. Born once is born with the spirit from below."

3:15 "I'm still doing it and still not knowing why I'm doing it. There's other things that I would really enjoy besides playing." Eventually, it seems Bob concluded that he must play the music and do the concerts because he sees it as his duty to God. This is why he's still touring to this day (sometimes referred to as The Never Ending Tour) and it seems like he's determined to do it as long as he's physically able.

3:44 "A surgeon who can save somebody's life on the highway, that's the man I'm gonna look up to as being somebody with some talent."

4:04 "Not to say that art is valueless, I think art can lead you to God." ... "Is that its purpose?" ... "I think so. I think that's everything's purpose. If it's not doing that, what's it doing? It's leading you the other way." Bob's also a painter... https://www.castlefineart.com/artists/bob-dylan

4:44 "Beauty can be very, very deceiving. And it's not always of God."

5:10 "I've spent a lot of time dealing with the man-made beauty, so sometimes the beauty of God's world has evaded me."

6:38 "Ritual has nothing to do with spiritual laws. However, if you do walk according to the Law, all of the Law... well, you'll be a pretty pure person and on a pretty high level. A person who could no doubt move mountains."

7:48 "I figure if you can't learn it here, you can't learn it."

8:13 "I grew up admiring those types of heroes... Robin Hood, Jesse James, you know, the person who always kicked against the oppression."

9:41 "I think I picked that up in the folk tradition, when I was singing nothing but folk songs for years. There are many songs about Jesse James, Cole Younger, the US bandits, Billy the Kid. Of course the English ballads had them, and the Scottish ballads had them, and the Irish ballads. I used to sing a lot of those songs, and that just kind of carried over with me."

12:48 "I don't think of myself as being told what to do all the time."

14:04 "I just have to hope that in some kind of way, this music that I've always played is a healing kind of music. If it isn't, I don't wanna do it. Because there's enough so-called music out there which is sick music. It's made by sick people, and it's played to sick people to further a whole world of sickness. Now, this is not only true in music, this is true in film industry, it's true in the magazine industry, television, billboard signs. It caters to people's sickness. We're all sick. You can be healed, and well, and set straight."