{"id":5358,"date":"2025-07-04T03:23:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T19:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artgardenhub.com\/?p=5358"},"modified":"2025-07-04T03:23:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T19:23:39","slug":"remember-when-mick-jagger-perfectly-defended-bob-dylans-singing-ability-to-a-critics-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artgardenhub.com\/?p=5358","title":{"rendered":"Remember When: Mick Jagger Perfectly Defended Bob Dylan\u2019s Singing Ability to a Critic\u2019s Face"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When a critic mocked Bob Dylan\u2019s voice, Mick Jagger didn\u2019t hold back\u2014leaning in with a smirk, he fired back, \u201cDylan\u2019s voice is the music.\u201d Moments later, as if summoned by destiny, Dylan stepped on stage and delivered a spine-tingling rendition of Like a Rolling Stone that silenced every doubter in the room. Raspy, raw, and real\u2014it wasn\u2019t just a performance, it was a masterclass in soul. The crowd erupted. The critic? Stunned into silence. Because true greatness doesn\u2019t need to sound perfect to hit you like lightning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Rolling Stones\u2019 Mick Jagger has rarely been one to talk smack about other artists. Unless of course,&nbsp;Keith Richards&nbsp;is in the room and being a bad influence. That being said, Mick Jagger has had a few nice things to say about his contemporaries, including the legendary Bob Dylan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cheatsheet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Mick-Jagger-Bob-Dylan.jpg\" alt=\"Mick Jagger Once Defended Bob Dylan's Singing After a Journalist Insulted It\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In a Dutch interview from years ago, Jagger and an interviewer discussed the notion of aging as a performing musician. Bob Dylan\u2019s name ended up being dropped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cheatsheet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Bob-Dylan-Mick-Jagger.jpg?strip=all&amp;quality=89\" alt=\"Mick Jagger Once Defended Bob Dylan's Singing After a Journalist Insulted It\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Jagger said that he respected how Dylan was able to put on cohesive shows that had a lot of entertainment value, even if he was starting to get on in years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c[Bob Dylan is] over 60, and I quite like watching his shows,\u201d said Jagger in the interview. \u201cI think it\u2019s quite fun. And I enjoy watching him performing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mick Jagger about Bob Dylan&#039;s voice.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JqHG1YYV5yI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The woman interviewing Jagger disagreed, saying that she liked Dylan as a performing artist but was not particularly fond of his singing voice. Jagger decided to step in to defend his fellow musician.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a funny voice, it\u2019s like a voice that\u2019s never been one of the great tenors of our time, but it\u2019s got a timbre, a projection, and it\u2019s got a feeling to it,\u201d Jagger defended Dylan. \u201cYou were talking earlier about as you get older, that your voice takes on a different resonance, different pitch, and so on. So, there\u2019s something to be said for that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Few have doubted Bob Dylan\u2019s songwriting ability, but not everybody&nbsp;<em>gets&nbsp;<\/em>his voice. That hasn\u2019t stopped him from becoming one of the greatest singer\/songwriters of the last century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-mick-jagger-has-spoken-fondly-of-bob-dylan-in-the-past\"><span id=\"mick-jagger-has-spoken-fondly-of-bob-dylan-in-the-past\">Mick Jagger Has Spoken Fondly of Bob Dylan in the Past<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Jagger\u2019s kind words for Dylan don\u2019t stop at that Dutch interview. He has also spoken fondly about the \u201cBlowin\u2019 In The Wind\u201d hitmaker in more recent years as well. The rock star once said that he started listening to Dylan\u2019s music around the beginning of the 1960s. This was when the singer\/songwriter was still considered exclusively a protest songwriter and singer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was playing Bob Dylan records at my parents\u2019 house when he was still an acoustic folk singer,\u201d Jagger told&nbsp;The Guardian&nbsp;in an interview from 2021. \u201cBut he was already very important and his lyrics were on point. The delivery isn\u2019t just the words, it\u2019s the accentuation and the moods and twists he puts on them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When a critic mocked Bob Dylan\u2019s voice, Mick Jagger didn\u2019t hold back\u2014leaning in with a smirk, he fired&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-musician"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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