| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 37130 |
| QUOTATION: | Dylan is to me the perfect symbol of the anti-artist in our society. He is against everything—the last resort of someone who doesn’t really want to change the world.... Dylan’s songs accept the world as it is. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Ewan MacColl (1915–1989), British folk singer, songwriter. Also quoted in Robert Shelton, No Direction Home, ch. 8 (1986). Interview in Melody Maker (London, Sept. 1965). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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