There would be brilliant songs, but, as [Bob] Dylan admitted on the recent Martin Scorsese documentary about him (No Direction Home), the specific muse that inspired "It's Alright Ma" would not return.
Bob DylanYou better start swimming, or you'll sink like a stone. Because the Time's they are a-changing.
Bob DylanSing your praise of progress and the doom machine, the naked truth is still taboo whenever it can be seen.
Bob DylanPeople talk about Frank Sinatra all the time - and they should talk about Frank - but he had the greatest arrangers. They worked for him in a different kind of way than they worked for other people. They gave him arrangements that are just sublime on every level. And he, of course, could match that because he had this ability to get inside of the song in a sort of a conversational way. Frank sang to you, not at you, like so many pop singers today. Even singers of standards.
Bob Dylan