No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
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:18:02
An artist has got to be careful
never really to arrive at a place...

:18:05
where he thinks he's "at" somewhere.
:18:07
You always have to realize
that you're constantly...

:18:10
in the state of becoming, you know?
:18:13
And, as long as you can stay in that realm,
you'll sort of be all right.

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I can't self-analyze my own work,
and I wasn't going to cater to the crowd...

:18:22
because I knew certain people would like it,
and certain people didn't like it.

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I had gotten in the door
when no one was looking.

:18:28
I was in there now,
and there was nothing anybody...

:18:31
from then on, could ever do about it.
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There's a time when the operation
of the machine becomes so odious...

:18:38
makes you so sick at heart
that you can't take part.

:18:42
You can't even passively take part,
and you've got to put your bodies...

:18:45
upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the levers, upon all the apparatus...

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and you've got to make it stop,
and you've got to indicate to the people...

:18:53
who run it, to the people who own it,
that unless you're free...

:18:56
the machine will be prevented
from working at all.

:19:04
The police have got Mario,
they are pulling him away.

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The police have pulled Mario away...
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All of us felt that those folks
before didn't get it.

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We were surrounded...
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by people who were insensitive
to the need for change.

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And that's why Peter, Paul and Mary,
and Bob Dylan, Joan Baez...

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all of whom were about the same age,
were put in positions of leadership...

:19:29
because there was an identification
amongst the college students.

:19:34
I felt it all over America.
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You know, wherever in America you went,
you felt that things were happening...

:19:40
in an Olympian type of way...
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in which children were beyond
their parents' command.

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He tried to exercise free speech...
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Sometime around that period of time
I was painting in Berkeley...

:19:52
and the phone rang,
and I think this was 1964.

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The phone rang, it was Bob and he said:
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"I have to do these shows,
you want to come?"

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I said, "Well, I'm painting pictures".

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