"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it." Thucydides
@@lewstone5430 It's quoted all over the Internet as by Thucydides, but Wikiquotes sources it as from the funeral oration given by Pericles - as quoted by the former in his History of the Peloponesian War. So you're surely right that it's Pericles - especially if you learned that in college and not from Google. It wouldn't be the first time that a twist in quotes was taken as fact after endless echoing on the Internet. I guess because Thucydides wrote about it, it's quoted as by him. Since I knew nothing about either of them, I'm grateful for your comment! Don't believe everything you see online, especially if it sounds off to you. You could even fix it, if it was important: been done before. But there are all kinds of posters and such with Thucyd..'s, not Pericles', name under it: maybe cos no way to truly verify? Or too cumbersome to put, "Pericles as quoted by Thucydides"..
I can jump back into any time period of this man's life and find total empathy. That feeling of being present but not supposed to be there. As much a brother as a kindred soul met along the highway.
Lisa W Bob has all three things : great lyrics , advanced understanding of music/chords/playing guitar, and his voice and melodies were out of this world in 60’s,70’s,and 80’s... so with all that talent and command of his craft, any of us would be moody , cranky or a bit aloof at times ... Bob worked on his craft incessantly so I’m sure he was indeed a bit rude at times but your right , at the core he’s a teddy bear
I find Dylan is fundamentally honest, but I don't accept anything he says as being factual. He has an unusual imagination and he talks in pictures and tales.
He was envisioning the heroic traditions and tales of honor of a history and social order that is long gone. I understand that. I saw it that way too, when I was a child. I was quite fascinated by military history (and still am), but by the time I reached my teens I was profoundly opposed to war, mainly because of the Vietnam War, which was a war with no justification and no honor! It's not at all surprising that Bob, who was born 7 years before I was, would have gone through a similar transition by the time he reached young adulthood...and would then have written "Masters of War". People change as the years go by, unless they are basically dead inside.
@@helenhollis3984 - This is not a question of havingforensic or conclusively verifiable "evidence", like in a science experiment or a criminal investigation. It's a matter of subjective opinion, and my opinion is based on a lifelong and very thorough study of Bob Dylan, his origins, his recorded interviews, the remarks of many people who've known him well, and pretty extensive knowledge of the many changes in his life. I am not making a "claim". I'm stating an opinion, based on the last 50 years of learning about Bob and his music. You don't have to agree with it. I don't have to agree with you. Nor does it particularly matter if we agree. I was simply talking about something that I have a deep interest in, that's all. If I was not interested, I wouldn't have bothered to comment.
@@helenhollis3984 - No problem. The thing is, back then when Bob was a young boy...the 1940's and 1950's...literally EVERY young boy fantasized about being a soldier and dying heroically in some battle. It was a universal experience. I am only 7 years younger than Bob Dylan and I grew up in that same social era when all boys "played guns" and imagined themselves as soldiers, cowboys, Indians, Vikings, Robin Hood, Davy Crockett...whatever....we played outside with toy guns and fake swords and we imagined ourselves as heroes on battlefields. For Bob to have done the same but to have later become anti-war in his opinions was just typical of that time. I loved imagining myself as a soldier when I was 7 years old....but by the time I was 16 I had become very antiwar in my feelings, mostly due to the Vietnam War which was opposed by a great majority of the young people. So there's actually nothing unusual at all in Bob Dylan changing in his feelings about war between his childhood and his young adulthood.
Iconic ,Elvis Dylan,Beatles thats how the rock revolution started ,never to be the same its sad son,very sad ,cause we really could hear what they have to say about these times were living in ,with covid 19 ,policebeating up the brother,people going hungry,loseing thier jobs etc.and all the politicians trying to do nothing ,but worry about thier own,yes bob the world it is changing!!!!
It always struck me as odd how Dylan disowned his family. Never talked about them, there's very little information about his mother and father or siblings. Other than knowing where he grew up, his childhood is a complete mystery for the most part and once he got to New York, it was like he was reborn into a life where it was only himself. I wonder if he even bothered to call home and talk to his parents when he started his career?
In the first years when he was getting more known he would visit Hibbing occasionally, they even got to see one of his concerts when he was already kind of big, the press discovered that they were there and it was kind of a big deal for Bob because he had his facade blown up. Then when he was already living in Woodstock his father died and he started being a lot more close to his mom. Or at least that is what I have read. He is just a private and secretive man anyways, no one knows much about his wives or some of his children either.
if the video were made now during COVID they would be wearing a mask, and the video and your comments would be completely different. the important thing to do throughout history and from this point forward is, "Do what Jesus tells us to do and we will be okay."
The more I hear Bob Dylan being interviewed the more I realize that he's not the "genius" that everybody makes him out to be. He sounds, to be honest, full of it and full of himself. Despite that, I do like his music.
@Jordan - You're probably right. Artists are often not good interviews for a variety of reasons. Most of them don't like to give direct, "on the nose" answers to questions, so they can tend to be opaque and somewhat evasive. I saw an interview with Tom Petty recently, and he gave a very interesting answer to a question about the "process" of writing a song. He said that he doesn't like to "look it in the eye" for very long, which confirmed something that I had always believed about it. Musicians and artists don't really understand it, either, so their answers often end up sounding tortured and pretentious. The ability to write songs and create art is very mysterious, and I believe some artists really think that if they try to "deconstruct" how they actually do it, that somehow that ability can be diminished or lost.
@@jaykay6387 From Plato: "I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled them to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean".
You are confused. His genius is in his self expression as a musician of words and sound not as a verbal articulate human. Intuitive and symbolic creativity which can't be articulated on the ordinary verbal linear plane. He could write the songs but sound dumber than a rock when interviewed. he couldn't explain it. Could Michaelangelo?
"I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be - so I'm on my way home."
Perfectly encapsulates why people love him, and how so many people feel.
I love Bob Dylan!
Me too!
Sure you do. Sheesh
"The bravest are surely those who
have the clearest vision of what
is before them, glory and danger
alike, and yet notwithstanding
go out to meet it."
Thucydides
I thought this quote was from Pericles?
@@lewstone5430 It's quoted all over the Internet as by Thucydides, but Wikiquotes sources it as from the funeral oration given by Pericles - as quoted by the former in his History of the Peloponesian War. So you're surely right that it's Pericles - especially if you learned that in college and not from Google. It wouldn't be the first time that a twist in quotes was taken as fact after endless echoing on the Internet. I guess because Thucydides wrote about it, it's quoted as by him. Since I knew nothing about either of them, I'm grateful for your comment! Don't believe everything you see online, especially if it sounds off to you. You could even fix it, if it was important: been done before. But there are all kinds of posters and such with Thucyd..'s, not Pericles', name under it: maybe cos no way to truly verify? Or too cumbersome to put, "Pericles as quoted by Thucydides"..
@@cockeyedoptimista Hmm, I don't know. It's a good and true quote though which is all that really matters.
@@lewstone5430 Yes. (Pericles, though, seems to have said it. But - oh anyhow.)
Bob Dylan is an icon.
..... same here.I love the guy!
Who told you that!?
It’s crazy how 10 year old Bob Dylan looks exactly like Bob Dylan
Yeah its almost as if they're the same person
@@implicitdifferentiation Hahaha haha
You ever see a pic of his mom? She could be a twin for him.
Sounded the same too. Had the voice of someone who smoked for years.
Hillarious
I can jump back into any time period of this man's life and find total empathy. That feeling of being present but not supposed to be there. As much a brother as a kindred soul met along the highway.
Everyone wants to make this dude out like he was some kind of super hippie ... he was not . He was more James Dean or Billy the Kid ...
Lisa W
Bob has all three things : great lyrics , advanced understanding of music/chords/playing guitar, and his voice and melodies were out of this world in 60’s,70’s,and 80’s... so with all that talent and command of his craft, any of us would be moody , cranky or a bit aloof at times ... Bob worked on his craft incessantly so I’m sure he was indeed a bit rude at times but your right , at the core he’s a teddy bear
i don't know what you're idea of hiipie is, but every weird beard, flower power boomer sitting in an indipendent coffee house sounds like bob dylan
Matthew Chunk 3 yea... that’s not even close to my idea of a hippie ...
He's Bob Dylan, he stands in a class all his own
Nah, he wasn't even that. He was Elston Gunn or Robert Zimmerman or probably Bob Dylan.
This is the most engaged, least pretentious, honest interview I’ve heard of Bob. He’s eating better, less weed, older. Pleasant to hear.
It's from 19 years ago.
so true...
@@LastMilitia Thanks for that random addition of information.
@@keepitwitmine What's random about it, the comment was made as though the interview was conducted last month.
@@LastMilitia I'm sorry. You jumped to conclusions, so I guess I assumed it was ok for me to do the same. Goofy me.
Relate. Relate. Relate.
I find Dylan is fundamentally honest, but I don't accept anything he says as being factual. He has an unusual imagination and he talks in pictures and tales.
Westpoint didnt want him, so he wrote songs against the masters of war. Seems legit.
He was envisioning the heroic traditions and tales of honor of a history and social order that is long gone. I understand that. I saw it that way too, when I was a child. I was quite fascinated by military history (and still am), but by the time I reached my teens I was profoundly opposed to war, mainly because of the Vietnam War, which was a war with no justification and no honor! It's not at all surprising that Bob, who was born 7 years before I was, would have gone through a similar transition by the time he reached young adulthood...and would then have written "Masters of War". People change as the years go by, unless they are basically dead inside.
Evidence for your claim?
@@helenhollis3984 - This is not a question of havingforensic or conclusively verifiable "evidence", like in a science experiment or a criminal investigation. It's a matter of subjective opinion, and my opinion is based on a lifelong and very thorough study of Bob Dylan, his origins, his recorded interviews, the remarks of many people who've known him well, and pretty extensive knowledge of the many changes in his life. I am not making a "claim". I'm stating an opinion, based on the last 50 years of learning about Bob and his music. You don't have to agree with it. I don't have to agree with you. Nor does it particularly matter if we agree. I was simply talking about something that I have a deep interest in, that's all. If I was not interested, I wouldn't have bothered to comment.
@@georgecoventry8441 My apologies for being so abrupt.
@@helenhollis3984 - No problem. The thing is, back then when Bob was a young boy...the 1940's and 1950's...literally EVERY young boy fantasized about being a soldier and dying heroically in some battle. It was a universal experience. I am only 7 years younger than Bob Dylan and I grew up in that same social era when all boys "played guns" and imagined themselves as soldiers, cowboys, Indians, Vikings, Robin Hood, Davy Crockett...whatever....we played outside with toy guns and fake swords and we imagined ourselves as heroes on battlefields. For Bob to have done the same but to have later become anti-war in his opinions was just typical of that time. I loved imagining myself as a soldier when I was 7 years old....but by the time I was 16 I had become very antiwar in my feelings, mostly due to the Vietnam War which was opposed by a great majority of the young people. So there's actually nothing unusual at all in Bob Dylan changing in his feelings about war between his childhood and his young adulthood.
Interesting relatable somehow
Oh, my God! In 1950 I was a baby with one year old.... Bob is so gorjeous in this video...
Does anyone know who sang that version of drifting to far from the shore?
Bill Monroe
@@RobRuwit50 thanks
So good! Lucky we are. We will miss them when they are no longer with us.the
Iconic ,Elvis Dylan,Beatles thats how the rock revolution started ,never to be the same its sad son,very sad ,cause we really could hear what they have to say about these times were living in ,with covid 19 ,policebeating up the brother,people going hungry,loseing thier jobs etc.and all the politicians trying to do nothing ,but worry about thier own,yes bob the world it is changing!!!!
It seems like Lil Richard or Chuck Berry should be there instead of Elvis at this point, considering they actually wrote their songs
🎼⭐️
He does it in the whiskey commercial he did with jimmy fallon. I think it's cute. My aunt has that same thing but she never did drugs
0:23
im just so goddamn depressed, i dont know what i'm doing
Chill David Lynch
You will be fine. Make something better
Thanks, Jake
Hey man, you good ?
hey I hope you're doing ok. drink water, take a walk, take care of yourself.. know that you're not alone and this will get better!
"Some people are born to the wrong parents. That happens, you know?"
I already in the direction he's but without the financial buffer
God works in mysterious ways
It always struck me as odd how Dylan disowned his family. Never talked about them, there's very little information about his mother and father or siblings. Other than knowing where he grew up, his childhood is a complete mystery for the most part and once he got to New York, it was like he was reborn into a life where it was only himself. I wonder if he even bothered to call home and talk to his parents when he started his career?
I don’t know about the rest of his family but I think his brother produced blood on the tracks
@@georgiosfragkidis558 I'm pretty sure Bob produced the album himself.
@@Dana-wq5tp sorry you are right, his brother only produced tangled up in blue 😁
@@georgiosfragkidis558 Didn't know that. Thanks for the info.
In the first years when he was getting more known he would visit Hibbing occasionally, they even got to see one of his concerts when he was already kind of big, the press discovered that they were there and it was kind of a big deal for Bob because he had his facade blown up. Then when he was already living in Woodstock his father died and he started being a lot more close to his mom. Or at least that is what I have read. He is just a private and secretive man anyways, no one knows much about his wives or some of his children either.
West Point didn’t allow hippies to join.
if the video were made now during COVID they would be wearing a mask, and the video and your comments would be completely different. the important thing to do throughout history and from this point forward is, "Do what Jesus tells us to do and we will be okay."
The more I hear Bob Dylan being interviewed the more I realize that he's not the "genius" that everybody makes him out to be. He sounds, to be honest, full of it and full of himself.
Despite that, I do like his music.
@Jordan - You're probably right. Artists are often not good interviews for a variety of reasons. Most of them don't like to give direct, "on the nose" answers to questions, so they can tend to be opaque and somewhat evasive.
I saw an interview with Tom Petty recently, and he gave a very interesting answer to a question about the "process" of writing a song.
He said that he doesn't like to "look it in the eye" for very long, which confirmed something that I had always believed about it. Musicians and artists don't really
understand it, either, so their answers often end up sounding tortured and pretentious.
The ability to write songs and create art is very mysterious, and I believe some artists really think that if they try to "deconstruct" how they actually do it, that
somehow that ability can be diminished or lost.
I agree. So many brilliant songs, but some people worship literally everything he says and does, it's kind of sad.
@@jaykay6387 From Plato: "I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled them to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean".
You are confused. His genius is in his self expression as a musician of words and sound not as a verbal articulate human. Intuitive and symbolic creativity which can't be articulated on the ordinary verbal linear plane. He could write the songs but sound dumber than a rock when interviewed. he couldn't explain it. Could Michaelangelo?
@@lebedev63 No, no, no. You don't get to just wave that away in such a glib fashion.
Ok...