No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
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:21:30
She played that upstroke-downstroke
kind of rhythm...

:21:33
where you don't need the drum.
It's kind of like a Tex-Mex rhythm.

:21:37
I heard that rhythm...
:21:38
and I thought, well, I could use
that rhythm for all kinds of things.

:21:42
I don't even remember, you know,
buying any records.

:21:45
If went into the booth...
I had a very agile mind.

:21:49
...I could learn a song
by maybe hearing it once or twice.

:22:00
I traded my electric equipment
for an acoustic guitar.

:22:04
Started playing almost immediately.
:22:06
There he is, down at the end of the bar.
Dylan! How are you?

:22:11
Dylan Thomas, and he's looking shocked.
:22:13
Out in Minnesota...
:22:16
there was a young man who was inspired...
:22:20
to change his name to Dylan...
:22:23
because of the poet Dylan Thomas.
:22:26
"Piety sings
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"Innocence sweetens my last black breath
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"Modesty hides my thighs in her wings
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"And all the deadly virtues
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"plague my death!"
:22:47
Why it became that particular name,
I really can't say.

:22:52
There was some intimation
that maybe he was changing his name...

:22:54
'cause of a racial thing.
:22:57
'Cause, I later found out...
:22:59
that Minneapolis had a fairly big history
of being anti-Semitic...


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