Re: More LOVE AND THEFT culprits

Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 08:40:21 GMT
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"SilkUpholsteredChair" <email-address-deleted> wrote in message >
(forgive the snipping of your post....I enjoyed the whole thing...I just did
it for brevity's sake)
>And wait a second, didn't he complain on one song that
> "imitators rob me blind"?
Was that a Dylan line? I seem to remember that as being something Van
Morrison sang (thought it was something along the lines of copycats rob me
blind).....but I could be wrong (and would be glad to know otherwise). >And were people this stressed when he
> lifted wholesale The Parting Glass and The Patriot Game?
Well, a lot of folks seem to feel as though it's justifiable to lift a
traditional folk/gospel song....since they are public domain. But to the
best of my knowledge, I don't think "Patriot Game" was public domain (wasn't
it penned somewhere in the late 1950s?).
>At any rate, as T.S. Eliot once said, "mature poets steal." Nobody's
> gonna argue that Dylan ain't mature.
T.S. Eliot was absolutely correct.....and I doubt there are many poets who
have been widely read or heard who would disagree with Mr. Eliot's words,
including Dylan.