Becoming Interested In Poetics Got Me Interested

Gregory Corso Used To Get Really Pissed When People Called Bob Dylan A 'poet.' After Writing Poetry For A Few Years, I Can Understand That.

Records Are Only One-dimensional. Even Film Is Only One-dimensional. That's Why Music And Live Theatre Is So Important, Because It's Not The Same Thing. A Recording Is Just A Record Of Part Of The Experience, But It's Not The Whole Experience.

Part Of It Is, I Think, Just To Let People Know You've Got A Record Out There And That You're Still Alive Requires More Work Than It Used To, Because The Traditional Radio, Bug Chains Of Record Stores, All Of That, That Doesn't Exist Anymore.

Back Then, The Business Depended On Bohemians. ... They Needed Kristofferson And Roger Miller ..it Was The Tail End Of Something...the Last Tin Pan Alley. ...and We Were The Night Shift! They Gave Us Keys, Because They Knew The Best Songs Weren't Written In Daylight.... We Got Our Keys Taken Away Several Times...me And Guy Clark.

I Was Comparatively Late In Understanding Bob Dylan's Overwhelming Importance As A Songwriter. Everybody Who Does My Job Exists In The Shadow Of Bob Dylan. There Are Two Categories: Dylan And Everybody Else. It's As Simple As That. And It's Going To Be That Way Until He Dies.