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“I always knew that sooner or later there would come somebody like Woody Guthrie who could make a great song every week. Dylan certainly had a social agenda, but he was such a good poet that most of his attempts were head and shoulders above things that I and others were trying to do. ... If I had an address, I'd send him a birthday card saying, 'keep on going.'”

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If there's something wrong, speak up!

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This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit.

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