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Are you going to participate in...
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the Vietnam Day Committee demonstration in
front of the Paramount Hotel tonight?
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I'll be busy tonight.
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Things had gotten out of hand.
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You know, it fell into the...
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You know,
you ask me why I write surreal songs...
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or whatever,
I mean that type of activity is surreal.
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I had no answers
to any of those questions...
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any more than
any other performer did, really.
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But, you know, that didn't stop...
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the press or people or whoever they were...
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from asking these questions.
They, for some reason the press thought...
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that performers had the answers
to all these...
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problems in the society and...
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you know, like what can...
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What can you say to something like that?
I mean, it's just kind of absurd.
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Phil Ochs wrote something
in a recent Broadside Magazine...
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to the effect that...
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you have twisted so many people's wigs
that he feels that it becomes...
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increasingly dangerous for you
to perform in public before an audience.
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Well, that's the way it goes, you know.
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I can't apologize, certainly.
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Do you feel that part of the popularity
is because of an identification...
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of your audience with you or with...
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what you're saying
or what you've been writing about?
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I have no idea.
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Mr. Dylan, you seem very reluctant
to talk about the fact...
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that you're a popular entertainer,
and you're a most popular entertainer.
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- What do you want me to say?
- Well, I don't understand why you...
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Well, what do you want me to say about it?
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Well, you seem almost embarrassed
to admit that you're... To talk about...
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Well, I'm not embarrassed,
I mean, you know.
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What do you want exactly for me to say?
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Do you want me to jump up and say,
"Hallelujah" and crash the cameras...
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and do something weird? Tell me.
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I'll go along with you.
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If I can't go along with you,
I'll find somebody to go along with you.
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No, but I find that...
You really have no idea...
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as to why,
or no thoughts on why you're popular?
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- That's what interests me.
- I just have...