Most Of The Time

I recently watched the Biopic about Bob Dylan, “A Complete Unknown”. It was very good.

He’s a one. Somehow he managed to have learnt the art of being completely himself at a very young age. And he did so in the face of fame and near universal acclaim.

If you or I were worshipped, as Dylan was once worshipped in his early twenties, it would be very unlikely that we wouldn’t lean in, at least a little bit, and allow the adoration to wash over us. Who doesn’t want to be loved?

Dylan didn’t seem to need that. Wherever his followers wanted him to go…he set off, and continues to set off at the ripe old age of 83, in the opposite direction.

Wherever that Devil May Care comes from, it continues to be a quality I admire. Maybe Dylan took it too far. But “Not Caring” is sometime a good character trait to acquire.

It can certainly write some good songs.

Most songwriters can manage it some of the time. Mr Zimmerman still manages it Most Of The Time