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).
