Jazz is hard to follow; I mean you actually have to like jazz to follow it; and my motto is, never follow anything. I don't know what the motto of the young generation is, but I would think they have to follow their parents. I mean, what would some parents say to his kid if the kid came home with a glass eye, a Charlie Mingus record and a pocketful of feathers? He'd say: 'Who are you following?" And the poor kid would have to stand there with water in their shoes, a bow tie on his ear, and soot pouring out of his belly button and say: "Jazz, Father, I've started following jazz."
Bob Dylan, originally in Playboy (1966), in C. Ricks, Dylan's Visions of Sin (2003), 143
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