Just discovered the full text of Dylan’s Nobel speech at the Nobel website.
They’ll be debating whether song lyrics (and/or specifically Dylan’s song lyrics) are literature for many long days. I don’t care. What I care about is Dylan as a songwriter.
- All Along the Watchtower
- Like a Rolling Stone
- To Make You Feel My Love
One man wrote all three. All three and a hundred more, dozens of which everyone alive has heard.
Nobel literature? Doesn’t matter. Best songwriter alive?
Absolutely.