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Bob Dylan,
Barack Obama on 6/6/2008 3:28:00 AM by Rob Barnett
The Times of London spoke to Bob Dylan on tour in Denmark.
"Well, you know right now America is in a state of upheaval," he says.
"Poverty is demoralising. You can't expect people to have the virtue of purity when they are poor. But we've got this guy out there now who is redefining the nature of politics from the ground up...Barack Obama.
He's redefining what a politician is, so we'll have to see how things play out.
Am I hopeful? Yes, I'm hopeful that things might change. Some things are going to have to.
"You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future."
More:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4076339.ece
And:
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article4074327.ece
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Bob Dylan on 5/24/2008 1:07:36 AM by Rob Barnett
"Oh ... there's always people trying to tell you how to do
everything in your life. If you really don't know what to do and you
don't care what to do - then just ask somebody's opinion. You'll
get a million different opinions. If you don't want to do something,
ask someone's opinion and they'll just verify it for you.
The easiest way to do something is to just not ask anybody's opinion. I mean if
you really believe in what you're doing ... I've just asked people's
opinion and it's been a great mistake, in different areas. In my
personal life, I've asked people what do you think about doing this
and they've said ... Oh Wow! ...! You know, and you end up not
using it or else using it wrong....
Yeah, you know what's right. When those things come you
know what's right. A lot of times you might be farming around and
not knowing what's right and you might do something dumb, but
that's only because you don't know what to do on the first place.
But if you know what's right and it strikes you at a certain time
then you can usually believe that instinct. And if you act on it, then
you'll be successful at it. Whatever it is."
