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• ‟ When I met Bob Dylan, I was definitely impressed. This guy had come from the American folk world, but he was very schooled in poetry, too. He'd studied the Beat poets, of course. I grew up in the British bohemian scene. Dylan grew up in the American bohemian scene. So I was very pleased to meet such a guy.

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• ‟ I'm probably the most successful Celtic bard of my generation, who projected this style and this image and this casketful of magical songs all around the world.

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• ‟ I was listening to a lot of bebop. And to Miles Davis. Everyone thinks I was just in the folk world in 1966, but in 1963 and 1964, I was absorbing enormous amounts of music, from baroque to jazz to blues to Indian music.

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• ‟ I can't save the world, but if I can share some ideas, people might be able to save themselves.

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• ‟ In the 1960s, I was convinced that the world was extremely mentally ill.

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• ‟ Any nobody from the folk blues world could avoid being influenced by Woody Guthrie, who is actually of Scottish-Irish ancestry.

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