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Creativity Quote by Robyn Hitchcock

"After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid"

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Casual brag, travel diary, creative manifesto: Hitchcock packs all three into a sentence that’s basically a tour van in motion. The glamour is deliberately unglamorous. “Nashville sushi” is the first sly joke - a collision of authenticity myths. Nashville, the capital of roots and “real” American music, paired with a food that signals cosmopolitan drift. It’s a quick way of telling you this isn’t a museum-piece reverence for tradition; it’s culture as remix, consumed late and lightly.

Then there’s the “long debate on Bob Dylan,” a name that functions like a tuning fork for songwriter ego and lineage. Dylan isn’t just an artist here; he’s a standard, a religion, a fight starter. Hitchcock signals membership in a certain musician’s tribe: people who argue about influence the way other people argue politics. The debate also doubles as warm-up: sharpening taste, staking claims, feeding the engine that makes a jam more than noodling.

The punchline is the timeline: “10 pm” into “5 hours solid.” That’s the romance of spontaneity, but it’s also a quiet flex about stamina and seriousness. Woodland Studios isn’t described with mystic reverence; it’s “a look around,” as if the sacred space is incidental to the act of making noise together. Subtext: the real ceremony isn’t the studio’s legacy, it’s the willingness to stay awake, stay curious, and let conversation turn into sound before the night cools. Contextually, it reads like a snapshot from a musician’s middle-aged continuity: still chasing the charge, still suspicious of polish, still believing the best work starts after dinner and an argument.

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Hitchcock, Robyn. (2026, January 17). After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/after-nashville-sushi-and-a-long-debate-on-bob-77150/

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Hitchcock, Robyn. "After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/after-nashville-sushi-and-a-long-debate-on-bob-77150/.

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"After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/after-nashville-sushi-and-a-long-debate-on-bob-77150/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Robyn Hitchcock (born March 3, 1953) is a Musician from England.

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