If You Can't Lend A Hand, Then

I Play These [folk Acoustic] Concerts And I Ask Myself, 'would You Come See Me Tonight?' - And I'd Have To Answer Truthfully, 'no, I Wouldn't Come. I'd Rather Be Doin' Something Else, Really I Would. That Something Else Is Rock... The Words Are Pictures, And The Rock's Gonna Help Me Flesh Out The Colors Of The Pictures. (1965)

Forget The Dead You've Left, They Will Not Follow You.

With Your Silhouette When The Sunlight Dims Into Your Eyes Where The Moonlight Swims, And Your Match-book Songs And Your Gypsy Hymns, Who Among Them Would Try To Impress You? -bob Dylan, "sad-eyed Lady Of The Lowlands” (1966)

How Many Roads Must A Man Walk Down Before Your Can Call Him A Man? . . . The Answer, My Friend, Is Blowin' In The Wind, The Answer Is Blowin' In The Wind.

In 1975,bob Dylan Was Almost 10 Years Past His Prime - And Then He Released The Best Album Of His Career, Blood On The Tracks. Written And Recorded Amid A Painful Divorce, Blood On The Tracks Is Proof That Heartbreak Makes Great Art - Just As Many Of The Albums That Followed Were The Opposite.