comment #1

Roman says ...

"All fine and good, but what about "don't follow leaders, watch parking meters"?"

That changed too. Besides, Dylan knows that we have to "serve somebody" anyway.

Not that I like what I just said.

comment #2

Edward says ...

It was almost surreal watching the election returns and discovering that Obama was going to win it. My wife and I had tears of joy in our eyes and kept looking at each other to make sure it was really happening. Then today the song that came into my head was the Who's, "Won't Get Fooled Again." Weird. I'm still hopeful though.

comment #3

corey3rd says ...

This is the Bob Dylan that sings for Victoria Secrets and looks like Vincent Price. The times have changed

comment #4

Rich S. says ...

Vincent Price never let himself go like Dylan has.

comment #5

Conroy says ...

"But even the president of the United States
Sometimes must have
To stand naked."

You know, metaphorically & all.

comment #6

DavidF says ...

Since we're all quoting Dylan, more recent and relevant might be...

"Lot of water under the bridge, Lot of other stuff too/
Don't get up gentlemen, I'm only passing through

People are crazy and times are strange/
I'm locked in tight, I'm out of range/
I used to care, but things have changed"

comment #7

Glenn Kenny says ...

I'm actually kind of moved by Dylan's remark. It's as if the young man who wrote "The Death of Emmett Till," "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll," "Percy's Song" and such was reasserting himself after so many years.

comment #8

Joshua Mooney says ...

Hey, remember Dylan accepting the Tom Paine Award at the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee dinner on Dec. 13, 1963?

"I'll stand up and to get uncompromisable about it, which I have to be honest, I just got to be, as I got to admit that the man who shot President Kennedy, Lee Oswald, I don't know exactly where —what he thought he was doing, but I got to admit honestly that I too - I saw some of myself in him. I don't think it would have gone - I don't think it could go that far. But I got to stand up and say I saw things that he felt, in me - not to go that far and shoot. [Boos and hisses] You can boo but booing's got nothing to do with it. It's a - I just a - I've got to tell you, man, it's Bill of Rights is free speech and I just want to admit that I accept this Tom Paine Award in behalf of James Forman of the Students Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and on behalf of the people who went to Cuba." [Boos and Applause]