John Adams: evaluation

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…What’s your favorite Bob Dylan album? I still like the early ones. I’m very fond of “John Wesley Harding. ” In most cases, it’s just individual songs. I think I show my age when I talk about that period because I’m so fond of it. It’s an interesting thing with pop music, that it’s so much linked to periods in your life, so that somebody who’s my age has a very, very strong sentimental attachment to music that you heard when you were 20. I don’t know, maybe this has a lot to do with your recollections of romances or revelations or the drugs you took or the lovers you had, and a lot of pop music evokes that. I don’t relate to pop music from the ’80s, for example, or from the ’90s. I think that’s very much a general thing. My parents related to music that was big in the 1930s and ’40s, so you measure by when you were born and the music you listened to. Sergeant Pepper or Abbey Road — which are you more likely to put on?…

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