Bob Dylan, acceptance speech for Best Album of the Year, 1998 Grammy Awards, Radio City Music Hall, New York City (25 February 1998); YouTube video from channel Videoarcheology (Retrieved on 2014-03-15)
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I just want to say that one time when I was about sixteen or seventeen years old, I went to see Buddy Holly play … at a Duluth National Guard Armory and I was three feet away from him. … And he LOOKED at me. And I just have some kind of feeling that he was — I don't know how or why — but I know he was with us all the time when we were making this record in some kind of way.

— Bob Dylan on Buddy Holly

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I just want to say that one time when I was about sixteen or seventeen years old, I went to see Buddy Holly play … at a Duluth National Guard Armory and I was three feet away from him. … And he LOOKED at me. And I just have some kind of feeling that he was — I don't know how or why — but I know he was with us all the time when we were making this record in some kind of way." in the context of "Bob Dylan, acceptance speech for Best Album of the Year, 1998 Grammy Awards, Radio City Music Hall, New York City (25 February 1998); YouTube video from channel Videoarcheology (Retrieved on 2014-03-15)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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About Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941) is an American folk and rock singer-songwriter, born in Duluth, Minnesota. In 2016 Dylan received the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition".