Home » Quote » Bob Dylan » „Bob Dylan: The media is all-pervasive. What can a writer think of to write that you don’t see every day in a newspaper or on television?Interviewer: …Do you think that TV and the media have killed poetry and literature?Bob Dylan: Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. … What’s a writer to do if every idea is exposed in the media before he can get to it or let it evolve? What’s a writer gonna write about? … We’re living in a science-fiction world. We’re living in a world that Disney has conquered. Disney’s science fiction. Theme parks, trendy streets, it’s all science fiction. So I would say, if a writer has got something to say, he’ll have to do it in that–Interviewer: Outside of the real world?Bob Dylan: There is a real world. Science fiction has become the real world. Whether we realize it or not, it has.“

„Bob Dylan: The media is all-pervasive. What can a writer think of to write that you don’t see every day in a newspaper or on television?Interviewer: …Do you think that TV and the media have killed poetry and literature?Bob Dylan: Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. … What’s a writer to do if every idea is exposed in the media before he can get to it or let it evolve? What’s a writer gonna write about? … We’re living in a science-fiction world. We’re living in a world that Disney has conquered. Disney’s science fiction. Theme parks, trendy streets, it’s all science fiction. So I would say, if a writer has got something to say, he’ll have to do it in that–Interviewer: Outside of the real world?Bob Dylan: There is a real world. Science fiction has become the real world. Whether we realize it or not, it has.“

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„If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.“

— Bob Dylan

„In the face of all this, many of the standard ideas of science fiction seem to me to pale by comparison. I see the relative absence of these things and the distortions of scientific thinking often encountered in science fiction as terrible wasted opportunities. Real science is as amenable to exciting and engrossing fiction as fake science, and I think it is important to exploit every opportunity to convey scientific ideas in a civilization which is both based upon science and does almost nothing to ensure that science is understood.“

— Carl Sagan

„Woz and I very much liked Bob Dylan's poetry, and we spent a lot of time thinking about a lot of that stuff.“

— Steve Jobs