Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.
I was sick of the way my lyrics had been extrapolated, their meanings subverted into polemics and that I had been anointed as the Big Bubba of Rebellion, High Priest of Protest, the Duke of Disobedience, Leader of the Freeloaders, Kaiser of Apostasy, Archbishop of Anarchy, the Big Cheese. Horrible titles any way you want to look at it. All code words for Outlaw.
Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.
Just in time for Bob Dylan to recoil from the attention, leave the city for Woodstock, and turn his back on fame.
I have always believed that fame is a curse. I never envied one of the famous people I've known.
Fame it's like... When you look through a window, say you pass a little pub, or an inn. You look through the window and you see people talking and carrying on. You,can watch outside the window and see them all being very real with each other. But when you walk into the room, it's over. I don't pay any attention to it.
Ironically, this was Bob Dylan's period [1967-74] of greatest fame.
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