I'm Not There. (2007): Jude Quinn At A Press Conference Part 2

The clip Jude Quinn At A Press Conference Part 2 from I'm Not There. (2007) with Cate Blanchett

How many would you say are protest singers today?
That is, people who protest against the social state we live in?
Uh, how many?
Yes. Are there many?
Yeah, um...
I
I think there's about 136.
Mr. Quinn, Keenan Jones from Culture Beat.
As someone symbolic of the protest movement among young people,
some have questioned, given your latest recordings,
whether or not you still care about people as you once did.
Yeah, but, you know,
we all have our own definitions of all those words.
"Care" and "people... "
Well, I think we all know the definition of people.
Yeah.
Do we?
Well, is it your belief, then, that folk music
has, perchance, failed to achieve its goals with the Negro cause
or the cause of peace?
You know, saying "cause of peace"
is just like saying... like a hunk of butter.
You know, I don't know how you can listen to anybody
who wants you to believe is dedicated to the hunk
and not the butter.
I'm not sure I follow.
You know, I didn't come out of some cereal box.
There's... There's no one out there
who's ever going to be converted by a song.
There's no Phil Ochs song that's going to keep
a movement moving nor the picket line picketing.
His songs are acts of personal conscience,
like burning a draft card or burning yourself.
Doesn't do a damn thing except disassociate you
and your audience from all the evils of the world.
I refuse to be disassociated from that.
All these people, you know,

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