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It makes her think of a documentary she saw about Bob Dylan. A folk singer from Greenwich Village in the sixties said, “He was just another guitar player trying to sound like Woody Guthrie. Then all at once he was Bob Dylan.”
Stephen King • Holly
In 1964, on a folk tour around England, Bob Dylan considered quitting.
He said,
“I play these concerts, and I ask myself: ‘Would you come see me tonight?’ and I have to truthfully say: ‘No, I wouldn’t come...'"
Burnt out and ready to quit playing music, Dylan as... See more
Bob Dylan: The Song Talk Interview
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George B. Kaiser, the driving force behind the acquisition, is far from the cult of rabid Dylandom. In an interview in his spacious office at the Kaiser-Francis Oil Company here, Mr. Kaiser, 73, made clear that he is less of an aficionado of Dylan than an appreciator of his place in American history. “I was taken by Joan Baez in college,” he said, ... See more
Ben Sisario • Bob Dylan’s Secret Archive (Published 2016)
Those casual fans wonder why he can’t be more like the Stones, unfailing jukeboxes of their earlier selves. They want to squint and see the young Dylan, with his Pre-Raphaelite hair and his Brando sneer. They want, at least for an hour and a half, a magic act: a man in his eighties who is a man in his youth.
David Remnick • A Unified Field Theory of Bob Dylan
Il était là. J’ai soudain compris la cause de l’atmosphère électrique. Bob Dylan était entré dans le club. Cette révélation a produit sur moi un effet étrange. Au lieu de me sentir toute petite, j’ai ressenti une puissance, peut-être la sienne ; mais j’ai aussi senti ma propre valeur et la valeur de mon groupe. Cette soirée m’est apparue comme une
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