"Bob Dylan wrote in his elliptical memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, he was washed up in the 1980s, no longer a commercial success, and no longer putting out good work."
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"The confessional singer-songwriter movement of the 1970s was in full swing, and Bob Dylan's emotional album [ Blood on the Tracks] resonated with the times. There would be other hits, but never the same alchemy of emotion and time."
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"I don't think there's enough guns."
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"[Bob] Dylan's broken-heart songs are so much better. Like "Simple Twist of Fate"."
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"A brilliant 1989 album, Oh Mercy; some career retrospectives; and two albums of American folk songs, with just Bob Dylan and his guitar and harmonica. All that culminated in the Grammy-winning comeback album, Time Out of Mind (1997). Once again, just as Dylan seemed to be out of it, he was back at the top of his game."
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"Just in time for Bob Dylan to recoil from the attention, leave the city for Woodstock, and turn his back on fame."
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"It was better to be in chains with friends than in a garden with strangers. [An ancient Persian proverb.] So true, huh?"
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"Ironically, this was Bob Dylan's period [1967-74] of greatest fame."
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"Whatever people see - TV in my mind forms people's opinions."
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"You know, sometimes a person's reputation can be far more colossal than the influence of the person. I don't pay any attention to it anymore."
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"It was [meeting with Nicolas Sarkozy] like looking at my mirror image."
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"Along with some of the worst music of Bob Dylan's career ("Self-Portrait," 1970), this period produced some gems - including many songs recorded with The Band in '67 but not released until years later."
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