“I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.”

—  Bob Dylan

Interview http://www.expectingrain.com/dok/int/shelton1978.07.29.html with Robert Shelton, Melody Maker (29 July 1978)

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