The place that I worked I used to joke about it. There was a, every morning at 10:30 I’d come into work and I’d go into this cubicle that had a little upright piano and fake white cork bricks on the wall.
AL KOOPER
The [Bob] Dylan sessions were very disorganized, to say the least. I mean, the “Like A Rolling Stone” session I was invited by the producer to watch.
More Al Kooper Quotes
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The place that I worked I used to joke about it. There was a, every morning at 10:30 I’d come into work and I’d go into this cubicle that had a little upright piano and fake white cork bricks on the wall.
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I believe Irving Berlin was there, and uh, and everything just centered around there.
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At the end of the playback of the take of “Like A Rolling Stone”, or actually during the thing.
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![Al Kooper Quote - Musically Bob [Dylan] is a primitive. He’s not a Gershwin, or somebody that uses eloquent music terms.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/musically-bob-dylan-is-a-primitive-hes-not-a-gersh.jpg)
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You couldn’t help being influenced by Dylan.
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Producing Bob Dylan was pretty much a spectator sport.
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Every day from 10 to 6, we’d go in there and pretend that we were 13 year old girls and write these songs. That was the gig.
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And he was about my age, and he just, that finished off my guitar career, just like that, in one afternoon.
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I mean just out and out crooks. And the next generation had a little more finesse. But I mean those first wave of people, you know, definitely would take all your money, no doubt about it.
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![Al Kooper Quote - I think it was Columbia politics, Columbia Records politics that, that, Tom Wilson left [Bob Dylan] after “Like A Rolling Stone”.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/i-think-it-was-columbia-politics-columbia-records-.jpg)
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Still being ambitious to want to play on the record, I was a mediocre keyboard player. And uh, I seized the opportunity and played the organ.
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Only through sheer ambition did I end up playing on [Bob Dylan sessions] and the fact that I could do that is a testament to how disorganized it really was.
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I don’t care, turn the organ up, and that’s really how I became an organ player.
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