“Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind.”

—  Bob Dylan

"Only Human Driftin' And Learnin'" http://www.interferenza.com/bcs/interw/63-aug.htm by Sidney Fields, New York Mirror (9 December 1963)

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