Vanvittig lineup hedret Dylan, og han svarte.
Grammy-utdelingen har naturlig nok fått de største overskriftene denne helgen, men natt til lørdag ble Bob Dylan hedret av veledighetsorganisasjonen MusicCares med en vanvittig lineup av artister. Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, og Jack White var blant de som covret Dylan foran mannen selv.
"Det er ingen tvil om at hans ord om fred og menneskerettigheter er mer kraftfulle enn de av noen amerikanske presidenter", sa tidligere president Jimmy Carter.
Dylan svarte med å levere en takketale på rundt 30 minutter, med et knippe uforglemmelige sitater.
Her er vår topp 5, som gjør seg best på originalspråket:
5. "These songs of mine, they're like mystery stories, the kind that Shakespeare saw when he was growing up."
4. "I just opened up a different door in a different kind of way."
3. "Sometimes, just sometimes, once in a while, a one-hit wonder can make a more powerful impact than a recording star who's got 20 or 30 hits behind him."
2. "I'm going to get out of here now. I'm going to put an egg in my shoe and beat it."
1. "Critics have been giving me a hard time since Day One. Critics say I can't sing. I croak. Sound like a frog. Why don't critics say that same thing about Tom Waits? (…) Sam Cooke said this when told he had a beautiful voice: He said, 'Well that's very kind of you, but voices ought not to be measured by how pretty they are. Instead they matter only if they convince you that they are telling the truth."
P.S: Dylan fant også tid til å slenge litt dritt om denne versjonen av den amerikanske nasjonalsangen:
Dylan sa: "A very popular soul-singing sister was chosen to sing. She sang every note - that exists, and some that don't exist. Talk about mangling a melody. You take a one-syllable word and make it last for 15 minutes? She was doing vocal gymnastics like she was on a trapeze act. But to me it was not funny".
Du kan lese hele takketalen til Dylan her.
