I would tend to agree with that, Weelittledrummer...he has settled for less. That often happens with people as they get older.   There's nothing to match the hunger, passion, and drive of a young person who is really excited about something, as Dylan was about the music when he was young, but the excitement can tend to fade after awhile.

There's nothing that can kill a dream so dead as achieving it in full measure. ;-) For instance, I had a dream in my head about Native Americans when I was a kid. Why? Who knows. Anyway, I eventually spent a lot of time hanging around with Native Americans, going to powwows, living among them....and then I acquired a Native American girlfriend. And that killed the dream. Stone dead. She was the single most problematical character I have ever dealt with. Any romantic illusions I was carrying about Native Americans were completely smashed by the time that relationship was through, and I've never felt the same about them since. The glow is definitely off the rose.

Now just apply that same analogy to the dream of becoming a great folksinger and playing Newport and Carnegie Hall....and see what might happen when and if you achieve it.

You never know how it's gonna go with such things till after they've been done.