Bob Dylan: Modern music is "worthless"

Bob Dylan says that he can't stand the sound of modern records, calling the audio quality of CD's "atrocious." Dylan, who releases his latest album, Modern Times, on Tuesday (August 29th), appears on the latest cover of Rolling Stone and took time out to complain about the sound of current albums, saying that, "They have sound all over them. There's no definition... no vocal, no nothing, just like -- static."

He also blamed digital technology for making his own music sound worse: "Even these songs probably sounded ten times better in the studio when we recorded 'em. CDs are small. There's no stature to it. I remember when that Napster guy came up across, it was like, 'Everybody's gettin' music for free.' I was like, 'Well, why not? It ain't worth nothing anyway.'"

Rolling Stone magazine's associate editor Austin Scaggs told us that Dylan's fans are still fascinated and confused by him; whether it's the details of his private life, or why he's given up playing guitar onstage: "Y'know, why is he doing this, why is he playing the piano? There's a lot of stuff in his, if you want to call it an autobiography, or memoir or whatever, there's a lot of stuff in there about this mathematical approach to performing and this mathematical approach to songwriting, and using his primary instrument as something for him to feed off of vocally. To use to find a new melody."
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