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Mickey Z
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the Department of Homeland Security.
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
Bob Dylan says:
“People see me all the time and they just can’t remember how to act/Their minds are filled with big ideas, images and distorted facts.”
(from “Idiot Wind,” 1974)
Speaking of Mr. Zimmerman: On the liner notes for “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan” album, it’s explained that the song “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” was written during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
“A desperate kind of song,” Dylan called it. “Every line in it is actually the start of a whole song,” he explained. “But when I wrote it, I thought I wouldn’t have enough time alive to write all those songs so I put all I could into this one.”
I have to believe that Bob spun that yarn after the fact...but it remains an interesting concept. What would you create if you thought you wouldn’t have enough time alive to create everything you wanted to create?
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