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From "Quotes: Influences and favourites" among many other references to Bob Dylan:
"All of Bob Dylan's songs are carved from the bones of ghosts and have myth and vision... 'Desolation Row' 'From a Buick 6' 'Ballad in Plain D' 'Restless Farewell' 'Visions of Johanna' 'Boots of Spanish Leather' 'Dark Eyes'. For me, 'Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" is a grand song. It is like Beowulf and it 'takes me out to the meadow.' This song can make you leave home, work on the railroad or marry a Gypsy. I think of a drifter around a fire with a tin cup under a bridge remembering a woman's hair. The song is a dream, a riddle and a prayer." (Source: "The Impact Of Dylan's Music 'Widened the scope of possibilities', by Robert Hilburn. Los Angeles Times. May 19, 1991)
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