This quote by Bob Dylan is a commentary on the state of music in the 1960s. Dylan was a popular figure in the folk music scene, and he was vital of the commercialization of popular music. He believed that the radio was playing music that was too loud and too repetitive, which it was making "hideous noises". He was also crucial of the absence of creativity and originality in the music that was being used the radio. He felt that the radio was not providing a platform for new and ingenious music, which it was rather playing the very same songs over and over once again. Dylan's quote is a reflection of his dissatisfaction with the state of popular music in the 1960s, and his desire for more innovative and initial music to be used the radio.
This quote is written / told by Bob Dylan somewhere between May 24, 1941 and today. He was a famous Musician from USA.
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"I think I owe thanks to the people who have listened to me over the years, who tuned in on the radio. They have given me a warmth and loyalty that I've never been able to repay. The way they have reached out to me has certainly been the highlight of my life"
"I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day"
"I think some people record songs and make records a certain way to cater to radio. If you're born to make commercial music that's cool. But if you're born to not make commercial records, maybe you're meant to cater to another market"
"If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets"
"There were also horror shows on the radio. Very terrifying and thrilling to me as a kid. They had all these creepy sound effects. They would come on at ten o'clock at night, and I just would scare myself to death"
