BOB DYLAN said the travelling performers that used to visit his hometown were his biggest career influences.
The legendary singer revealed that he learned a lot from the circus-style performers that would visit Duluth, Minnesota.
And he said they and not the mass media had the biggest effect on his work.
Dylan, 67, said: "The side show performers - bluegrass singers, the black cowboy with chaps, and a lariat doing rope tricks.
"Miss Europe, Quasimodo, the Bearded Lady, the half-man half-woman, the deformed and the bent, Atlas The Dwarf, the fire-eaters, the teachers and preachers, the blues singers. I remember it like it was yesterday.
"I got close to some of these people. I learned about dignity from them. Freedom too. Civil rights, human rights. How to stay within yourself."
Dylan's new album, Together Through Life, is released on April 28.
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