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And there ain't no place I'm going to
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A lot of my songs, they were becoming
hits for other people.
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There was, the Byrds had a big hit.
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Some group called the Turtles had some hit.
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Sonny and Cher had a hit
with a song of mine.
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People were sort of writing
a jingly-jangly kind of song...
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which seemed to have something to do
with me, I, you know, like, "okay..."
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You know, I Got Me, Babe, is some kind of
take-off of me, something I wrote.
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Well, I don't know what it was a take-off
on that I wrote, you know?
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I didn't really like that sound...
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or folk-rock, whatever that was, I didn't feel
that had anything to do with me.
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It got me thinking about the
Billboard charts and the songs...
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which become popular,
which I hadn't thought of that before.
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Once upon a time you dressed so fine
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You threw the bums a dime
in your prime, didn't you?
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I found myself writing this song, this story...
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this long piece of vomit,
20 pages long, and out of it...
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I took Like A Rolling Stone,
and made it as a single...
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and I'd never written
anything like that before.
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And it suddenly came to me
that was what I should do.
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After writing that, I wasn't interested
in writing a novel or a play or anything.
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Like I knew I just had too much,
I wanted to write songs.
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About having to scrounge
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Your next meal
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Mike Bloomfield said he had heard
my first record...
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and said he wanted to show me
how the blues were played...
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and I didn't feel much competitive...
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I didn't feel much competitive with him,
he could outplay anybody, even at that...
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at that point, you know.
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But when it was time
to bring in a guitar player on my record...