"When I was a little kid in La Jolla, California, which is a very small town, we had a parade on the 4th of July and I remember clearly the sight of Civil War veterans marching down the main street, kicking up the dust.
The first time I heard Bob Dylan, it brought back that memory.
And I thought of him as something of a Civil War type.
A kind of 19th century troubadour. A maverick American spirit.
The reediness of his voice and the spareness of his words go straight to the heart of America... the best way I could sum him up is to say - Bob Dylan has never been about to get out of town before the shootin' starts."
(Gregory Peck, Kennedy Center Honors, 1997)
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