:08:00
Well, here's Bobby, he's 21 years old
or whatever, he gets up there...
:08:04
and they're giving him an award
and his discomfort was extraordinary.
:08:09
And he pointed his finger at them
and he said...
:08:14
"I haven't got any guitar. I can talk, though.
:08:16
"I want to thank you
for the Tom Paine Award...
:08:19
"on behalf of everybody
that went down to Cuba.
:08:21
"First of all, because they're all young
and it took me a long time to get young...
:08:25
"and now I consider myself young,
and I'm proud of it.
:08:28
"I'm proud that I'm young.
:08:30
"And I only wish that all you people
who are sitting out here tonight...
:08:33
"weren't here, and I could see
all kinds of faces with hair on their head...
:08:37
"and everything like that,
everything leading to youngness. "
:08:40
You know, they were trying to build me up
as a topical songwriter.
:08:43
I was never a topical songwriter
to begin with...
:08:46
for whatever reason they were doing it...
:08:49
was reasons not, really...
That didn't really apply to me.
:08:52
"Old people, when their hair grows out,
they should go out.
:08:55
"I look down to see the people
that are governing me...
:08:58
"and making my rules,
and they haven't got any hair on their head.
:09:01
"I get very uptight about it.
:09:02
"There's no black and white,
left and right to me any more.
:09:06
"There's only up and down,
and down is very close to the ground.
:09:10
"And I'm trying to go up without thinking
about anything trivial, such as politics. "
:09:15
The evening that Dylan
was given the Freedom Award...
:09:19
from the Emergency Civil
Liberties Committee...
:09:22
apparently he got up, stood on his hind legs
and said he was not a political poet...
:09:26
and nobody's left wing servant...
:09:29
but an independent minstrel or something.
:09:33
And astonished and pissed everybody off...
:09:35
by not being a nice trained seal.
:09:38
People were expecting him to give
the same thing over and over again...
:09:43
in a precise manner, and a precise theory,
in a precise way, and it got creepy...
:09:47
because why should you have to
push yourself into a tunnel that isn't yours?
:09:52
I mean, you're driving along
and all these roads are apparent.
:09:55
Why do you have to take that tunnel,
and go in and it's literally a tunnel...
:09:59
because it's political in its theory?