Still being ambitious to want to play on the record, I was a mediocre keyboard player. And uh, I seized the opportunity and played the organ. — Al Kooper Copy Share Image
If you'd done a good job you'd just step back and let all these different chemistries interact and let it go. — Al Kooper Copy Share
The "Highway 61" album [of Bob Dylan] was produced by Bob Johnston if I'm not incorrect. And Bob Johnston was an entirely different producer… — Al Kooper Copy Share
I think it was Columbia politics, Columbia Records politics that, that, Tom Wilson left [Bob Dylan] after "Like A Rolling Stone". — Al Kooper Copy Share
The place that I worked I used to joke about it. There was a, every morning at 10:30 I'd come into work and I'd… — Al Kooper Copy Share
Still being ambitious to want to play on the record, I was a mediocre keyboard player. And uh, I seized the opportunity and played… — Al Kooper Copy Share
My influences were mostly gospel. So I was playing my twisted Jewish equivalent of gospel music over his twisted equivalent of rock and roll… — Al Kooper Copy Share
Only through sheer ambition did I end up playing on [Bob Dylan sessions] and the fact that I could do that is a testament… — Al Kooper Copy Share
Musically Bob [Dylan] is a primitive. He's not a Gershwin, or somebody that uses eloquent music terms. — Al Kooper Copy Share
Mike Bloomfield sat down and started playing, and I went, whoa! Because I had never heard any white person play like that before. And… — Al Kooper Copy Share
The first generation from the '50s that were in 1650 [Broadway] were pretty much all crooks, I mean just out and out crooks. And… — Al Kooper Copy Share
The very funny thing about "Like A Rolling Stone" is it was a six minute song, there was no music to read from. And… — Al Kooper Copy Share
I started in the music business I was first introduced to 1650 Broadway, uh, which was in reality where everything happened in the '60s. — Al Kooper Copy Share
