• Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind.

    Bob Dylan: Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind.
    "Only Human Driftin' And Learnin'" by Sidney Fields. New York Mirror, December 9, 1963.