You know, people say, well isn’t it great to be able to do what you do? Well, it is to a degree but they forget that an artist… a touring artist, anybody that is out touring… playing live from town to town night after night. Do you think that’s easy. It’s not easy. Do you think that people are having a ball.
But it’s not, you know, I mean, you just have to get up and you, you know, like it’s… you have to do what you’re supposed to do. So you have to do that. But, I know that when I get off the road, oh man! For the first two or three or four weeks even, maybe if it’s that long… I mean, for the first week anyway until it gets boring being off the road. But for the first week off the road, I mean, you can get up any time you want, you know! You don’t have to go to sleep at this hour and get up at that hour, and get yourself lined up to do this, and, you know, be here in that certain place, and have to go through this and go through that, and then get back and get the proper amount of sleep and eat right, you know, and you’re afraid to get sick, you know, afraid you’re gonna hurt yourself someplace along the line. All those things, like, you know… they just disappear on the last show, then you can do anything you want. I mean, it’s a high feeling.
— Bob Dylan, 1984
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