Friday, February 19, 2021

my weariness amazes me

 



"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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