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.
1:27:11
Albert tells me one day he's gonna send
a guy over to see me named Bob Dylan.
1:27:17
He's got a guitar, with some kind
of a contraption around his neck...
1:27:20
so that the harmonica is up to his mouth.
1:27:22
Now, believe me when I tell you...
1:27:24
nobody had ever seen this
on Broadway before.
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And he starts singing for me.
1:27:31
And one of the things that I pride myself on
is that I think I'm one of the few...
1:27:35
At that time, I may have been
the only one in the music business...
1:27:38
who listened to the words.
1:27:41
And when I heard...
1:27:42
"How many years must one man have
before he can hear people cry," I flipped.
1:27:47
I can't even remember what the songs were
that he played me that day...
1:27:50
but I said, "Okay, that's it. I want you".
1:27:52
How many roads must a man walk down
1:27:58
Before they call him a man
1:28:07
The music business per se
was dominated by music publishers.
1:28:13
In those days, the song was important.
You would pick a song and work on it.
1:28:25
Historically, whenever you see
Dylan mentioned in print...
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it's always John Hammond
who discovered Bob Dylan.
1:28:31
I think the guy
who made Dylan popular was me...
1:28:34
if I say so myself.
1:28:36
I'm the one who started
to get his songs all over the place.
1:28:39
We never had resistance
within the company to him.
1:28:42
My boss, the old man, Herman Starr,
got on it right away.
1:28:45
Why? Because they smelled dollars,
that's why.
1:28:49
I gotta sing you something
to tell you something.
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It's called Masters of War.
1:28:58
Come you masters of war