Bob Quotes

• If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clinton, I think you would probably leave them with Bob Dole.

  Bob Dole

  Children, Thinking, Bills

  "New York" Magazine‎, April 29, 1996.

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• Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet.

  Bob Marley

  Music, Names, Marley

  Bob Marley (2012). “Listen to Bob Marley: The Man, the Music, the Revolution”, Open Road Media

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• Somebody had to be Bob Dylan. I guess I was best equipped to do the job.

  Bob Dylan

  Jobs, Dylan

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• You could live in Winnipeg a thousand years and not meet Ringo, Paul McCartney, or Bob Dylan.

  Burton Cummings

  Years, Dylan, Thousand

  "Canada Inside Out". Book by David Olive, 2012.

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• My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

  John F. Kennedy

  Brother, Dad, Father

  John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

  Bob Dylan

  Thinking, Answers, Dylan

  Bob Dylan (2005). “Bob Dylan: Inspirations”, p.34, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I'm not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I've never thought about that before! He said, When you're not following me, you're resisting me.

  Bob Dylan

  Jesus, Follow Me, Said

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• No rest for the wicked, Bob, and that means that we can't slack off either, or they'll outwork us.

  Jim Butcher

  Mean, Wicked, Either Or

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• I am a critic who is pulled toward history. But Bob Dylan himself is a great historian. He is an historian who acts out history. So it always has a personal stamp. It always has a particular timbre. It always has a particular howl, or a moan, in that voice.

  Greil Marcus

  Voice, Timbre, Stamps

  "Talkin’ Bob Dylan". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. October 19, 2010.

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• Songs are like fish. You just gotta have your line in the water. And it's a bad idea to fish downstream from Bob Dylan.

  Arlo Guthrie

  Song, Ideas, Water

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• I think I'm the oldest new Bob Dylan around. I predate Bruce Springsteen, Steve Forbat and John Prine. I was probably the first of the new Bob Dylans.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Thinking, Firsts, Dylan

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• I’m definitely excited to have a fresh start. Talking to the coach [Bob Hartley], talking to management, they want me to have success, and that definitely makes your life easier. It keeps your mind free to just go out there and play as good as you can, instead of worrying about giving up bad goals and having to prove yourself every night – not just to the public, but to the coaching staff and everybody else. That’s definitely a nicer way to feel comfortable, if you know they have your back.

  Jonas Hiller

  Giving Up, Night, Talking

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• I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope. I want to keep on going out and doing what I love to do. Of course, I'm no Bob Hope, but I mean that feeling that you never are old and have things to offer and can be useful to somebody. I always want to be useful, I have no intentions of retiring unless I should get sick or something should happen to my husband. Other than that I'm going to work until I fall over.

  Dolly Parton

  Husband, Work, Fall

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For all his understanding of worldly concerns, when it came to fathoming the deeper meaning of his own furious activity, Sir Bob displayed the sort of laziness for which he himself had no patience in others. He appeared to have only a passing interest in the overall purpose of his financial accumulation.

  Alain de Botton

  Understanding, Laziness, Purpose

  "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2009.

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• Well, I don't let anyone record with me that is not a fan of mine or believe in my music. Everybody that records for me, from Bob Dylan on down to George Jones, everybody loves me and my music, and I knew they would do their best that they could do, and they did. I didn't doubt them a bit. There's some country people that I wouldn't want, which didn't record with me.

  Ralph Stanley

  Country, Believe, People

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• If Bob Dylan really is an historian in and of himself in his work, in his performances, he is also an historian with a unique sense of humor. There's always been a bit of a stand-up comic in him.

  Greil Marcus

  Unique, Sense Of Humor, Comic

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• He [Johnny Cash] always wanted to use his music to lift other people up, to say no matter how much trouble, there's hope. That was always his message in his songs. That's why he and [Bob] Dylan bonded so much, because they were both trying to do something meaningful.

  Robert Hilburn

  Meaningful, Song, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I first met (Bob Dylan) in '65. We've had a friendship for a long time. He decided to play on a record I was making in New York. We were just friends playing together.

  Doug Sahm

  New York, Play, Long

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• Bob Hope has a beautiful short game. Unfortunately, it's off the tee.

  Jimmy Demaret

  Beautiful, Golf, Games

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• Bob Dylan is as influential as any artist that there has been.

  Robbie Robertson

  Artist, Influential, Dylan

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• I admire those old road dogs, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan. That's their life.

  Robbie Robertson

  Dog, Admire, Dylan

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• When I was playing with Bob Dylan in, like, 1966, I was, like, 20 years old.

  Robbie Robertson

  Years, Dylan

  "Singer-songwriter-guitarist Robbie Robertson". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 16, 2013.

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• What always attracted me to [Bob] Dylan, and what has sustained me as a Dylan listener, or has always continued to surprise me, is his voice, the way he sings, the way he wraps his voice around certain words, the way he backs off from melodic moments, the way he moves forward to grab something in a song that, were anybody else performing it, they would have no idea it was even there.

  Greil Marcus

  Song, Moving, Ideas

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• Along with a lot of other things, becoming a Bob Dylan fan made me a writer. I was never interested in figuring out what the songs meant. I was interested in figuring out my response to them, and other people's responses. I wanted to get closer to the music than I could by listening to it - I wanted to get inside of it, behind it, and writing about it through it, inside of it, behind it, was my way of doing that.

  Greil Marcus

  Song, Writing, People

  Greil Marcus (2011). “Bob Dylan: Writings 1968-2010”, p.17, Faber & Faber

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• I loved working with Bob Dylan.

  Benmont Tench

  Dylan

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