1:04:00
I don't know, but your songs
are supposed to have a subtle message.
1:04:03
- A subtle message?
- Well, they're supposed to.
1:04:08
Where'd you hear that?
1:04:12
- In a movie magazine.
- Oh, my God!
1:04:17
Do you think of yourself primarily
as a singer or as a poet?
1:04:21
I think of myself more
as a song-and-dance man, you know.
1:04:26
Mr. Dylan, I know you dislike labels
and probably rightly so...
1:04:29
but for those of us who are well over 30...
1:04:33
could you label yourself
and perhaps tell us what your role is?
1:04:40
Well, I sort of label myself as well under 30.
1:04:46
And my role is to, you know,
to just stay here as long as I can.
1:04:54
You're considered by many people to be...
1:04:56
symbolic of the protest movement
in the country...
1:04:59
for the young people.
1:05:00
Are you going to participate in...
1:05:02
the Vietnam Day Committee demonstration in
front of the Paramount Hotel tonight?
1:05:06
I'll be busy tonight.
1:05:10
Things had gotten out of hand.
1:05:12
You know, it fell into the...
1:05:14
You know,
you ask me why I write surreal songs...
1:05:17
or whatever,
I mean that type of activity is surreal.
1:05:21
I had no answers
to any of those questions...
1:05:23
any more than
any other performer did, really.
1:05:26
But, you know, that didn't stop...
1:05:31
the press or people or whoever they were...
1:05:34
from asking these questions.
They, for some reason the press thought...
1:05:37
that performers had the answers
to all these...
1:05:41
problems in the society and...
1:05:44
you know, like what can...
1:05:46
What can you say to something like that?
I mean, it's just kind of absurd.
1:05:51
Phil Ochs wrote something
in a recent Broadside Magazine...
1:05:54
to the effect that...
1:05:55
you have twisted so many people's wigs
that he feels that it becomes...
1:05:59
increasingly dangerous for you
to perform in public before an audience.