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I haven't really struggled for that. I don't...
1:07:05
It happened, you know.
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It happened like anything else happens.
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How many people who labor...
1:07:14
in the same musical vineyard
in which you toil...
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how many are protest singers?
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That is, people who use their music
and use the songs...
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to protest the social state
in which we live today.
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The matter of war, the matter of crime,
or whatever it might be.
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- How many?
- Yes.
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- Are there many who...
- Yeah.
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I think there's about 136.
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- You say, "about 136"?
- Yeah.
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Or do you mean exactly 136?
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It's either 136 or 142.
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At a certain point, people seemed to have
a distorted, warped view of me...
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for some reason,
and those people were usually...
1:07:58
outside of the musical community.
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"The spokesman of the generation".
1:08:01
"The conscience of a..."
This, and that and the other.
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That I could not relate to.
I just couldn't relate to it.
1:08:09
As long as I could continue doing
what it is that I loved to do...
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I didn't care
what kinds of labels were put on me...
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or how I was perceived in the press
because I was playing to people every night.
1:08:25
I played at the Hollywood Bowl.
1:08:27
Then I left the organization.
1:08:30
I actually was frightened
when I got the tour itinerary...
1:08:34
to see that we were
going to play Dallas where...
1:08:36
they had just killed the President.
1:08:39
And I thought, you know:
"If they didn't like that guy...
1:08:41
"what are they going to think of this guy?"
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And I didn't want to,
you know, I didn't want to be...
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the analogy to John Connally.
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I didn't want to be the guy next to him.
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I started out on Burgundy
But soon hit the harder stuff