Bob Dylan: Plagiarist?

Dylan's so old that his stuff is damn near in the public copyright domain.

 

Sure, but the dude -- sorry Moddy -- has written 100's of songs.

And, you could really say that about most songwriters. Read Bono or Sting's lyrics.

Read Springsteen's. There's a lot of dreck.

A song is the sum of its parts.

 

"Good writers borrow. Great writers steal."


- T. S. Eliot

 

Most of Springsteen's stuff is dreck.

 

Carlton, you are just the worst kind of person. Now my thoughts for the rest of the day are going to be dominated by "Hot dog, hot dog, hot diggity dog..."

 

This really is an indication of the miserable existence Joni Mitchell leads.

 

She hasn't been the same since they paved paradise.

 

Cribbing tunes and lyric phrases is a centuries-old routine in folk music.

Half of Woody Guthrie's songs were rewrites of traditional songs.

As far as the paintings are concerned, Dylan should have just said straight ahead they were "based on photographic sources."

 

She got passed around Laurel Canyon like a joint. Two thirds of CSN was with her.

But, like Joan Baez, she seems bitter about the experience.

Maybe it's that their male contemporaries have stayed relevant. Maybe it's that they didn't end up in a happy relationship.

But, they really seem bitter.

 

At least I got a parking spot out of it.

 

"But even the president of the United States
Sometimes must have to stand naked."

Sorry Bob.

 

I can cure that...

"I'm your only friend, I'm not your only friend, but I'm a little glowing friend, but really I'm not actually your friend but I am."