798 Bob Dylan (1941- ) “Ballad of a Thin Man” 1965

“JH: Did you go into the folk field, then, because you had a better chance of ‘making it’?
BD: No that was an accidental thing. I didn’t go into folk music to make any money, but because it was easy. You could be by yourself, you didn’t need anybody. All you needed was a guitar…
JH: Why did you give up the folk sound?
BD: I’ve been on too many other streets to just do that. I couldn’t go back and just do that. The real folk never seen Forty-second Street, they’ve never ridden an airplane. They’ve got their little world, and that’s fine” (Bob Dylan and Joseph Haas in Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews, 2006). 

Bob Dylan “Ballad of a Thin Man”