“When you’re young you think that time moves forward. At 80 you know that it doesn’t, it stands still. We’re the ones that move”
“The best thing about being 80 is that you outlive the clocks that have been chasing you,” he wrote. “It’s freedom from that lie that anything was ever under control. You don’t chase the parade anymore. You’re an old king from some vanished country. You’re harder to program.”
He also pointed to some negatives, adding: “The old fire in your heart still tells you to do this and that, but your body says we already did it. Also, nothing surprises you. It sounds like a luxury but it’s not, and also you’ve run out of illusions.”
“The really worst part about being 80 is that you find, at last, you’ve got an understanding of something that might have altered everything in the past, had it come at a time when something could still be altered,” he added. “When you’re young you think that time moves forward. At 80 you know that it doesn’t, it stands still. We’re the ones that move.”
Unlike the other participants in the op-ed, Dylan did not provide any advice for Trump specifically. Noted Trump critic Robert De Niro did not hold back.
"The president doesn't listen to advice. He surrounds himself with feckless clowns who keep their positions by supporting his every whim. If I were able to pierce the shell of cruelty, greed, corruption and stupidity for one piece of advice... I would advise him to get some good advice from good people, and follow it."
On the heels of his 85th birthday, Bob Dylan is set to kick off his 2026 summer tour this week.
The 35-date run kicks off Thursday, June 4th in Troutdale, Oregon at the McMenamins Edgefield Amphitheater and includes stops in Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Kansas City, and Queens, New York. As of now, the tour is set to wrap on August 1st in Nashville at the Ascend Federal Credit Union Amphitheater.
Dylan does not have an L.A. show scheduled, per se, but he’s playing just about everywhere in the vicinity but L.A. County, so Angelenos who want to catch him this summer will have plenty of opportunities for a short drive, to Santa Barbara, Palm Desert, Highland or San Diego.
One place Dylan won’t be this summer is on Willie Nelson‘s Outlaw Music Festival. He was a co-headliner with Nelson for extensive tours the past two summers, including shows at the Hollywood Bowl. But Nelson’s tour routing for the 2026 festival went out Tuesday morning and Dylan was not among the participants, in what is likely a friendly “most likely you go your way and I’ll go mine” situation. (Nelson only has 12 dates scheduled for this summer’s outing, versus the 35 that he and Dylan did together in 2025.)
Bob Dylan 2026 Tour Dates:
06/14 – Berkeley, CA @ Greek Theatre
06/17 – Santa Barbara, CA @ Santa Barbara Bowl
06/18 – Highland, CA @ Yaamava’ Theater at Yaamava’ Resort and Casino
06/20 – Palm Desert, CA @ Acrisure Arena
06/21 – San Diego, CA @ The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park
06/23 – Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona Financial Theatre
06/24 – Tucson, AZ @ AVA Amphitheater at Casino Del Sol
06/26 – Albuquerque, NM @ Sandia Amphitheater
06/29 – Austin, TX @ Moody Amphitheater
06/30 – New Braunfels, TX @ Whitewater Amphitheater
07/02 – Thackerville, OK @ WinStar World Casino
07/03 – Rogers, AR @ Walmart AMP
07/04 – Kansas City, MO @ Starlight Theatre
07/06 – Shakopee, MN @ Mystic Lake Amphitheater
07/08 – Chicago, IL @ Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island
07/24 – Vienna, VA @ Filene Center at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts
07/25 – Vienna, VA @ Filene Center at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts
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See the full lineup of Dylan tour dates, with ticketing links, on his website here.
Bob Dylan Kicks Off 2026 Tour With Surprise Eddie Cochran Cover, New Acoustic Set.
The show featured the first performance of "Man in the Long Black Coat" since 2013, and the live debut of Eddie Cochran's 1958 classic "Nervous Breakdown"
Bob Dylan launched the 2026 leg of his Rough and Rowdy Ways tour Saturday evening at the Orpheum Theater in Omaha, Nebraska. (Rolling Stone reports)
He made some big changes by playing six Rough and Rowdy Ways songs as opposed to the usual nine, ditching his grand piano in favor of a tiny keyboard in the center of the stage, and rearranging the music by having guitarists Bob Britt and Doug Lancio play acoustic instead of electric. An electric guitar sat on Dylan’s amp all night, but he never touched it.
The night began in standard Rough and Rowdy Ways fashion with “I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight,” but veered off course right afterwards when Dylan broke out Oh Mercy‘s “The Man in the Long Black Coat” for the first time since 2013. Songs like “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right” and Bo Diddley’s “I Can Tell” – which he’s only played at Outlaw Festival shows in recent years – were sprinkled into the set. And the biggest surprise came near the end when he played Eddie Cochran’s 1958 classic “Nervous Breakdown” for the first time in his history as a live performer. Phones were banned from the show, and no video has emerged, but fans did manage to capture clean audio recordings.
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