No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
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He said, "I'll buy you a leather jacket,"
and he said, "all the paint you need".

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The next thing I knew, you know,
I got on a plane...

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and I flew to New York.
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In those days, artistic success...
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was not dollar-driven.
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It was, you know...
Those were simpler times.

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If you had something to say,
which was the...

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Basically, the way people were rated...
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you know, they'd say:
"Have you seen Ornette Coleman?

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"Does he have anything to say?"
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And it was the same with, like...
With Bob or anybody else.

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Do they have anything to say or not?
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Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon

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The handmade blade, the child's balloon
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Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon

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There is no sense in trying
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As pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
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Suicide remarks are torn
From the fool's gold mouthpiece

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The hollow horn plays wasted words
Proves to warn

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That he not busy being born
Is busy dying

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Nobody had heard anything like this before.
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No one had heard anything like this before.
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There was a word of mouth.
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And by the way, a crowd of 1,200 people
isn't that big a crowd...

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if you stop and think about it.
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That's about how many people
are waiting for the D train...

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at Sheridan Square right now.
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While preachers preach of evil fates
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Teachers teach that knowledge waits
Can lead to hundred-dollar plates

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Goodness hides behind its gates
But even the President of the United States

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Sometimes must have to stand naked
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Around that time he asked me
if I wanted to go with him to...

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You know, he had a date in Chicago.
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Did I want to come along?
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What struck me was that he was at one...
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or he became identical with his breath.
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And Dylan had become a column of air,
so to speak, at certain moments...


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