DYLAN - 'I'm No Saviour'

[method77]

BOB DYLAN has given a rare TV interview in the US where he dismissed people’s perception of him as a "saviour".

The legend gave his first TV interview in 19 years to ’60 Minutes’ in the US, which will be broadcast this coming Sunday (December 5) on CBS.

In it, Dylan says that he never intended to write "sermons", just songs.

He said: "It was like being in an Edgar Allen Poe story and you're just not that person everybody thinks you are, though they call you that all the time. 'You're the prophet. You're the saviour.' I never wanted to be a prophet or a saviour. Elvis maybe. I could see myself becoming him. But prophet? No.

"My stuff...[they] were songs...they weren't sermons. If you examine the songs, I don't believe you're going find anything in there that says that I'm a spokesman for anybody or anything, really. [Those who feel that way] must not have heard the songs."

NME.com

[slum_goddess]

people think he's a saviour? (AFAIC, his street cred went out the door when this photographer, who was w/him in england, told me he went up to the ramones and asked them where he could buy the same leather jacket).

[megabitch]

I must admit that I've often thought: why does not BD take a stand against what's going on now (George Bush; Gulf war and such).

He definitely is somebody who is listened to.

Not a saviour, not a prophet, but for 30 years ago he made people THINK.

And now, as the battle outside it is raging, and the youngsters do not seem to care at all, I'm convinced that there was a lot this man could do.