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"A man named Albert Grossman
has put me together...
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"with some other guys
from the coffeehouses...
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"and we're trying out a new group there.
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"We're singing".
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And I said, "You mean
you were in Florida all this time?
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"Where's your tan?
Didn't you ever go out in the sun?"
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She says, "No, Albert told me
I shouldn't go out in the sun.
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"That I was supposed to be
the pale, blonde, indoor type".
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And it really made my flesh creep,
to put it truthfully...
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because I was shivering cold in New York...
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and she had the chance
to get out in the sun...
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but that she was being manipulated,
that the whole thing had an image...
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it had a look.
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I just felt that this was a bad sign.
1:26:39
I didn't feel that Albert manipulated Bob...
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because I think Bob
was weirder than Albert...
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so that he couldn't manipulate him.
1:26:47
And by weird, I don't mean in a bad way
but I mean that he had enough games.
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Now, Bob was also a terrific opportunist...
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so if someone gave him an opportunity
to do something, he could use it.
1:26:58
I don't know if Bob was a hustler.
1:27:00
I think he just knew what he wanted
and he could focus.
1:27:03
He was very astute.
1:27:04
He could pick out somebody who was
important. I mean, any musician would...
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but he was really good at it.
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Albert tells me one day he's gonna send
a guy over to see me named Bob Dylan.
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He's got a guitar, with some kind
of a contraption around his neck...
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so that the harmonica is up to his mouth.
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Now, believe me when I tell you...
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nobody had ever seen this
on Broadway before.
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And he starts singing for me.
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And one of the things that I pride myself on
is that I think I'm one of the few...
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At that time, I may have been
the only one in the music business...
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who listened to the words.
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And when I heard...
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"How many years must one man have
before he can hear people cry," I flipped.
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I can't even remember what the songs were
that he played me that day...
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but I said, "Okay, that's it. I want you".
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How many roads must a man walk down
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Before they call him a man