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“But if the experiences ‘Nebraska’ and its aftermath had dragged him through had any value, it was to reinforce his desire to belong to just such a community, to cut him loose from the illusion of the romantic loner, to make him understand that in real (not mythic) life, making your stand all by yourself is a miserable impossibility.”

“A businesslike attitude toward that sort of thing is not appropriate. I want our band to deliver something that you can’t buy.”