Joan Baez on Bob Dylan ditching the Nobel prize, doing a Chevy ad: ‘What the f–k!’

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Rock & Roll Hall of Fame career will forever be intertwined with that of another 1960s folk legend: Bob Dylan.So what did she think when the “Blowin’ in the Wind” bard received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016?“I thought, ‘Oh, how Bob,’” Baez, 82, told the Hollywood Reporter. “I mean, people differ about whether or not he deserved it for his writing, but whatever — I thought he was a great writer of music.

It moved me for half a century and millions of people ever since.”But Dylan was a no-show in Stockholm to accept the prestigious honor. “It was so typical that he didn’t want to go and accept it,” said Baez. “And everybody gets so insulted and everybody’s surprised.

And they shouldn’t be surprised anymore. He’ll go off and do a Chevrolet ad, what the f–k? So don’t be surprised [by Dylan] anymore.

Just enjoy it.”And when asked if she’s still in contact with the 81-year-old icon, Baez said, “Um, no.”Known for fusing her music with a message in the 1960s and ’70s, Baez doesn’t think the same kind of convergence of art and politics could happen today.“I think we have to look for what will be next, because that will never be recaptured,” she said. “That was decades of extraordinary politics and meaning and power and risk-taking and marches, and you can’t recreate that.