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“It’s a very mysterious song. You can’t really put your finger on it. It’s a brilliant lyric. I love ‘Inside the museums/ Infinity goes up on trial.’ It’s almost like you’ve gathered all the evidence to see whether infinity exists. His voice has a very smoky, late-night feel to it as well. Where he talks about a person and he says, ‘He’s sure got a lotta gall to be so useless and all.’ I love the addition of ‘and all’ at the end of the line, it makes it kind of casual in a way. It’s a corny thing that’s often said about Dylan, but he changed the popular song to where it could become more abstruse and it didn't have to be so direct.” RICHARD BUTLER (PSYCHEDELIC FURS)
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“That song is so long, and I often find myself drifting off enjoying the song and thinking, ‘What fucking does it mean?’ You know, ‘Walking down the hall faster than a cannonball,’ what the fuck is all that about? And I should know, ‘cause I wrote it, and I haven’t got a clue.“ NOEL GALLAGHER (VIA SIRIUSXM)
“The way it ended is really sad because it didn’t have to end that way. I went back to treatment, and he just stopped communicating with me. I haven’t heard from him since January 3, 2025.” – STEVEN DROZD