Al Kooper | Minimalist Quotes

I think it was Columbia politics, Columbia Records politics that, that, Tom Wilson left [Bob Dylan] after “Like A Rolling Stone”.
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After Record Roll Stone Think
And a little slate that came out of the wall that you could actually write on. And a door that locked from the outside.
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Actual Came Lock Out Slate Write
Tom Wilson had produced jazz records and was a Harvard educated.
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Educate Jazz Record University
My influences were mostly gospel. So I was playing my twisted Jewish equivalent of gospel music over his twisted equivalent of rock and roll music. And it was a very excellent marriage.
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Excellent Gospel Jewish Mostly Over Twist
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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Bob End Session Sheer Through
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.

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.
AL KOOPER

Disorganized Invite Least Like Mean Producer Roll Say Session Stone
The first generation from the ’50s that were in 1650 [Broadway] were pretty much all crooks,

AL KOOPER

The first generation from the ’50s that were in 1650 [Broadway] were pretty much all crooks,
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Crook Doubt First Mean Much
You couldn’t help being influenced by Dylan.

AL KOOPER

You couldn’t help being influenced by Dylan.
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Being
And he was about my age, and he just, that finished off my guitar career, just like that, in one afternoon.

AL KOOPER

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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Guitar Just My One
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.

AL KOOPER

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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Ambitious Keyboard Mediocre Organ Record Seize Still

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