According to executive director Virginia Dajani, officials couldn't decide whether he belonged for his words or for his music, so they settled on making him an honorary member, joining such previous choices as Meryl Streep, Woody Allen and a filmmaker who has made a documentary about Dylan, Martin Scorsese.

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As I watched a Martin Scorsese documentary on Dylan last night in my Miami hotel room, I thought again how Dylan created an original sound by marrying two forms: folk to a rock beat.

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