Bob Dylan

[Sarah]

And you really think Dylan is a rational? I'm sticking by him being an type, ILE. I'm sure of it.

Dylan is ISFj.

quotes:

I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.

I kinda live where I find myself.

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.

I'm inconsistent, even to myself.

Some formulas are too complex and I don't want anything to do with them.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

I'm more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

I don't think I'm tangible to myself.

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something.

A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.

[Nevero]

bump.

[maniac]

I would say ESI but I think he is intuitive. I have no idea except introverted.



Love him, 4w5

[consentingadult]

Inspired by this thread I took some time to watch some interviews, and I can not conclude anything else than SLI for his type. A lot of Mobilizing Fi in those interviews, a person clearly marching to his own drum beat, and (perhaps wrongly) anticipating rejection, through his Mobilizing Fi being preemptively defensive about it.

Also, in many interviews Dylan clearly doesn't connect with the interviewer (because interviewers treat him as if he were an intellectual) and this discomfort shows in his body language: e.g. an ESI would in such cases more likely express judgement (verbal or non-verbal) towards the interviewer, but with Dylan it translates into expression of physical discomfort, e.g. rocking his body back and forth, i.e. he feels physically estranged, he does not want to be there any longer.

I think his overall attitude is one of someone who has trouble appreciating other people. Think of Ganin's Hidden Agenda for ILIs and SLIs: "to love". These two types find it difficult to find people they consider worthy of being loved. He does not want to talk about intellectual stuff, he wants to connect emotionally, but he depends upon the interlocutor to make it happen. Those are the people that SLIs and ILIs consider 'worthy'.

ETA: I just came across an interview where he actually opens up, because of the approach of the interviewer:

[Jake]

ESI

[consentingadult]

EII

make your case!

[Jake]

make your case!

He's definitely Delta, Ne isn't repressed like it would be in SLI or LSE. Not IEE as I don't think an IEE could stay so quiet for so long and want to run away from the media so often (stereotyping, I know). Strong Ni in a couple of videos (demonstrative, possibly?).

My other impression is Gamma NT, lots of Te from him...possibly London

[maniac]

i love bob. lyrical genius.

[on a peaceful hiatus]

ESI

[khcs]

Bob Dylan - ESFP - Napoleon

[on a peaceful hiatus]

that girl at the end (probably an ESE) always makes me laugh. it's very weird to see him in a strong Fe enviroment with extroverts that are involved in what's happening.

[khcs]

[user123]

IEI

[Bethanyclaire]

Perfection seeking, maybe ESI

[on a peaceful hiatus]

Oh wow I typed him ESI in the past. Perspectives change haha.

IEI

[Djangr]

EII