Exactly....pure creative genius is rare...but a beautiful thing to watch if one has the privilege...if you ask yourself the question, "Have I done anything TOTALLY original in my life?" and the answer is "yes", then you are one of the few...very few people manage to initiate something new, something the world hasn't seen before...that's what originality is...
bodleing: Legends in their own right for sure, but like you said,
not notable singer songwriters.
Personally i dont think anyone comes even close to Dylan
for sheer creative genius.
I remember listening to an interview on the radio with
George Harrison recalling his time with theTravelling
Wilburys. He said someone just mentioned the phrase
tweeter and the monkey man. Dylan said that would be a good
title for a song, and then to everyone's astonishment he wrote
it there and then in less than an hour.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8QTRzY1rzo
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