Шведская академия присудила Нобелевскую премию по литературе 2016 года американскому 75-летнуму музыканту и автору песен Бобу Дилану «за создание нового поэтического языка в великой американской песенной традиции».
Што?
"- That is real poetry. Those are real poets. Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, Bob Dylan, the Beatles.
- Okay. What if one of your heroes came up to you and said... You know, Smokey, what if he said: "Alex Fletcher, you are a horrible songwriter"? How would you react?
- I know Smokey a little bit. He's too nice a gentleman ever to say such a thing. Dylan might. Dylan would, actually. In fact, Dylan did.
- Okay, Dylan walks up to you and he says, "You are a horrible songwriter." How do you react?
- I would be horribly depressed. Yes. I would. I would. But then, after, you know, months of brooding... I would find a lyricist... and write a song about how horribly depressed I was. It would be a big hit, everyone would love me, and I'd make lots of money. Suddenly I'd be less depressed than if I just sat around letting my misery eat away at me... until I'd become an emotional wreck and creatively completely moribund. Yes, moribund."
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