For years, Bob Dylan scholars have whispered about a tiny notebook, seen by only a few, in which the master labored over the lyrics to his classic 1975 album “Blood on the Tracks.”
The New York Times goes inside Dylan’s secret archive.
Complement with Dylan on creativity and the unconscious mind.
Bob Dylan (b. May 24, 1941) on sacrifice, success, and the unconscious mind in a fantastic 1991 interview
Bob Dylan on success and creative integrity in a fantastic vintage interview
Bob Dylan, adapted in pictures.
So lovely: If Dogs Run Free – Bob Dylan’s 1970 classic, adapted as a picturebook by illustrator Scott Campbell.
Bob Dylan’s “Forever Young,” released on this day in 1974, adapted as a charming illustrated children’s book by artist Paul Rogers.
“How many of these will you make? How many of these will you break?”
Bob Dylan reads the 10 most popular New Year’s resolutions of all time.
Complement with Woody Guthrie’s timelessly heart-warming resolution list.
Q: How do you work?
A: Most of the time I work at night. I don’t really like to think of it as work. I don’t know how important it is. It’s not important to the average cat who works eight hours a day. What does he care? The world can get along very well without it. I’m hip to that.
Bob Dylan, echoing Alan Watts and Maira Kalman’s definition of being an artist.
Thoreau put it even more eloquently: “If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal — that is your success.”
