I believe all of that is true, and I believe that is greatly why he is so big. But another part of why I don't like it I guess is that I simply don't like it. I'm not knocking those who do, but it's just not my thing.
And I know that you aren't doing this, but some people feel that the fact that old black musicians who couldn't get a shot wrote a lot of his earlier songs makes them better. I can see how that can make a deeper impact symbolicly, but I don't think any more of the actual songs just because of this.
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At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate
representative for almost all mankind." - Kurt Vonnegut Cat's Cradle
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