Bob Quotes - Page 13

• Bob [Dylan] is not authentic at all. He's a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception. We are like night and day, he and I.

  Joni Mitchell

  Night, Voice, Names

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• Who would you vote most likely to succeed? Bob Arum - White, Jewish, a graduate of Harvard, a Kennady Raider, United States Attorney. Don King - black, poor, out of the hard core getto of Cleveland, Ohio, numbers runner, a little confectionary dealer, ex-convict. Now who would you vote to succeed? It would be hands down........ Yet in this great land called America, I have out performed, outachieved, been more recognizable, did more, broke more records, and had more of a phenominal career, where Arum can't tie my shoe string. You understand?

  Don King

  Kings, Careers, Shoes

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• Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Work, Names

  P. G. Wodehouse (2009). “Psmith, Journalist”, p.248, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Hero, People, Generations

  "Living memories" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2005.

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• The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as the songs of Homer.

  Robert Fitzgerald

  Song, Guitar, Way

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• Bob Seger was a huge inspiration.

  Eric Church

  Inspiration, Huge

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• In The Bob Hope Golf Classic (LWT) the participation of President Gerald Ford was more than enough to remind you that the nuclear button was at one stage at the disposal of a man who might have either pressed it by mistake or else pressed it deliberately in order to obtain room service.

  Clive James

  Mistake, Golf, Men

  Clive James (2017). “Clive James On Television”, p.503, Pan Macmillan

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• The why is plain as way to parish church:
  He that a fool doth very wisely hit
  Doth very foolishly, although he smart,
  Not to seem senseless of the bob; if not,
  The wise man's folly is anatomiz'd
  Even by the squand'ring glances of the fool.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Smart, Men

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, William Watkiss Lloyd, John Thompson, Thomas Stothard (1856). “As you like it. Taming of the shrew. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night”, p.42

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• Bob Moses, composer, drummer, poet, artist, conceptualizer, inspirer of people, has created a musical environment that is balanced between discipline and freedom, compositional design and spontaneous inspiration. A party with a purpose. This album is original, soulful, funny and very special. I hope a lot of people get as much enjoyment from it as I have.

  Gil Evans

  Inspiration, Party, Artist

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• Remember when Ronald Reagan was president? We had Bob Hope. We had Johnny Cash. Think about where we are today. We have got President Obama. But we have no hope and we have no cash.

  John Boehner

  Thinking, President, Cash

  "US midterms 2010: election day diary" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2010.

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• I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Leaving, Toes, Firsts

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• Bob Erlendson, a local piano player, taught me chord structure and which scales go along with them. Later, I began listening to [pianists] Bill Evans and McCoy Tyner. Then I got interested in [saxophonist] John Coltrane.

  Lenny Breau

  Music, Player, Piano

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• Then about 12 years ago it dawned on me that folk music - the music of Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs, early Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Pete Seeger - could be as heavy as anything that comes through a Marshall stack. The combination of three chords and the right lyrical couplet can be as heavy as anything in the Metallica catalogue.

  Tom Morello

  Years, Three, Cash

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• The Democrats are all over this. Democratic strategists feel John Kerry's war record means he can beat Bush. They say when it comes down to it voters will always vote for a war hero over someone who tried to get out of the war. I'll be sure to mention that to Bob Dole when I see him.

  Jay Leno

  War, Hero, Mean

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• Well, it speaks to the character of the players more than anything. Bob Myers and his staff have done an incredible job of putting together this roster. I was well aware of the versatility that the roster had, but as I got to know the players I realized they had what it took spiritually, emotionally. They were united. They wanted to win. They were close.

  Steve Kerr

  Jobs, Character, Winning

  "Game Quotes: Cavaliers vs. Golden State Warriors - June 16". Interview, www.nba.com. June 17, 2015.

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• I have observed that, generally speaking, network sports announcers did not tend to live to a ripe old age. On the other hand, I had noticed that baseball announcers seemed to go right on forever. Bob Elson has been calling balls and strikes since the beginning of time. Harry Caray must have started with Abner Doubleday, and was still going strong.

  Lindsey Nelson

  Sports, Baseball, Strong

  Lindsey Nelson (1985). “Hello everybody, I'm Lindsey Nelson”, William Morrow & Company

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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.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Night, Nashville, Pms

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• I think that generally music should be a positive thing, I like Bob Marley's attitude: he said that his goal in life was to single handedly fight all the evil in the world with nothing but music, and when he went to a place he didn't go to play, he went to conquer.

  Jon Fishman

  Attitude, Fighting, Thinking

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• I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.

  Sally Kellerman

  Wife, Lovely, Fabulous

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. January 10, 2002.

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• Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He promises verywell, considering we never controlled him much.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Children, School, Boys

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.172, Library of America

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• Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated.

  Tom Chapin

  Song, Tin Pan Alley, Appreciated

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• Bob Dylan is the Jew of all time.

  Guy Oseary

  Dylan, All Time, Jew

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• Courtney Love's name should be right next to Bob Dylan when they say best lyricist of all time.

  Linda Perry

  Names, Next, Should

  "Love Wants Her Throne Back On New Album". www.billboard.com. October 20, 2006.

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• Anything but the void. And so we keep hoping to luck into a winning combination, to tap into a subtle harmony, trying like lock pickers to negotiate a compromise with the 'mystery tramp,' as Bob Dylan put it.

  Dennis Overbye

  Winning, Luck, Trying

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• If you going to live by a certain code - as Bob Dylan said, you gotta serve somebody.

  Thomas F. Wilson

  Said, Certain, Dylan

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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