Bob Quotes - Page 22

• The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.

  Ed Sheeran

  Wicked, Fans, Stories

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

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• Music television is all about the media-oriented version of what it is to be a rock star; it's not about what Bob Dylan or Jimi Hendrix were about - which included great images, sure, but they had spiritual and political and revolutionary content, too.

  Patti Smith

  Spiritual, Stars, Rocks

  "American icon". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2003.

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• When I was very, very young, I decided that I was gonna catalogue my times because that's what other people who I admired did. That's what Bob Dylan did, that's what Frank Sinatra did, Hank Williams did, in very different ways.

  Bruce Springsteen

  People, Different, Way

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• I can't do that wonderful thing that Tom Waits and Bob Dylan do - to do imagery. I'm not good at that. I just write from the heart.

  Rod Stewart

  Writing, Heart, Waiting

  "Rod Stewart: 'I thought songwriting had left me'". Interview with Michael Hann, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2013.

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• Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys are simply the best band that ever was.

  George Strait

  Texas, Band, Playboy

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• You listen to Bob Dylan and you can't help but think of the 60s, it's very relational and if artists are true artists and not just mere musicians they need to be truthful because the music doesn't come from them, it comes from the universe and it's to be shared. At best, we're skilled presenters, and I say that at best.

  Serj Tankian

  Artist, Thinking, Musician

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

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• I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.

  Marlo Thomas

  Dad, Thinking, Laughing

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• Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes.

  Pete Townshend

  Thinking, Long, Rolling

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• Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre.

  Pete Townshend

  Writing, Men, Political

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• Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.

  Don Van Vliet

  Slugs, Dylan, Impress

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• They have a kind of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby thing going on.

  Christopher Walken

  Kind, Crosby

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• It's a wise person, I guess, who knows he's dumb, and an honest person who knows he's a liar. And it's a dumb person, I guess, whose convinced he's wise...-Bob Slocum

  Joseph Heller

  Wise, Liars, Dumb

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• If you'd spent your life being called "Gyles Brandreth", you would crawl across broken glass to achieve the bliss, the simplicity, the purity, the joy of simply being called "Bob".

  Gyles Brandreth

  Glasses, Broken, Simplicity

  "Genius" with Dave Gorman, BBC Radio 4, Series 3, Episode 4, October 22, 2007.

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• Bob Dylan seems to me a totally pernicious influence - the nasal whine of death and masochism. Certainly, this would be a more cheerful world if there were no Dylan records in it. But Dylan and his audience mirror each other, and deserve each other; as Marx said, a morbid society creates its own morbid grave-diggers.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Mirrors, Cheerful, Would Be

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• I still prefer to hear [Bob] Dylan acoustic, some of his electric songs are absolutely great. Electric music is the vernacular of the second half of the twentieth century, to use my father's old term.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Father, Use

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

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• I've listened to Dylan my entire life. My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, and all that kind of stuff. It opened up a whole world of this music that I'm now obsessed with.

  Oscar Isaac

  Dad, Cat, Fans

  "Inside Llewyn's Oscar Isaac on the Coen Brothers, Bob Dylan & Success". Interview with Tim Lammers, www.esquire.com. December 8, 2013.

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• Joaquin Sabina is one of my favorites. He's like a legend. He's like our Bob Dylan, or our Bruce Springsteen. He's one of the most talented writers of our Latin music.

  Juanes

  Latin, Legends, Dylan

  "Juanes: A Superstar Slows Down, Shifts Gears". Interview with Mandalit Del Barco, www.kalw.org. August 16, 2012.

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• The competition is very stiff. Brian Williams has proved himself as a credible news anchor (at NBC), and Bob Schieffer has done the same (at CBS). But as Peter and Tom (Brokaw) and Dan have always said about the competition, it makes us all better.

  Bill Vaughan

  Nbc, Anchors, Competition

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• Bob Dylan started out as a folk rip- off but he quickly ran with complex influences and it ended up to be his own sound.

  Daniel Smith

  Rip, Sound, Influence

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• Speaking of opinions, the charming woman does not air hers very freely. The crude woman is eager to let you know what she thinks of every matter, person or object that bobs up. She comments on every passing item - even in public, as you may have noticed. Not only is it bad taste for her to be so desperately interested in her own reactions and opinions - but she throws away the precious aura of reserve and mystery that makes a woman attractive.

  Margery Wilson

  Thinking, Air, Doe

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• I just always wanted to be a baseball announcer. I'm a huge Mets fan, and I wanted to be the next Bob Murphy. As far as careers go, that was the first career that I really thought about. Well, before that, I wanted to be a Mello Yello truck driver.

  Logan Marshall-Green

  Baseball, Careers, Fans

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

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• In Paris in 1964 was the first time I ever heard Dylan at all. Paul got the record (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan) from a French DJ. For three weeks in Paris we didn't stop playing it. We all went potty about Dylan.

  John Lennon

  Music, Paris, Three

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• The drama teacher that I had in high school, back in Texas, was the only teacher who didn't kick me out of his class. He turned me on to 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.' I had picked up Dylan with 'Bringing It All Back Home,' and he turned me on to the first couple of albums, which I hadn't heard.

  Steve Earle

  Teacher, Couple, Drama

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• The principal House sponsor (of the Defense of Marriage Act), Bob Barr of Georgia has been married three times--which raises the question of why the act doesn't contain a three-strikes-and-you're-out provision.

  Frank Rich

  House, Three, Defense

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• It was a pity that movies and live TV left New York for Hollywood. London theater, movies, television - until (Britain's) money ran out - were always better than ours since the city was the political capital of the country, as well as the artistic and literary one. In L.A. we've always been slightly sealed off from real life. It's no accident that two of our most interesting directors, Woody Allen and Bob Altman, are more or less settled in the real world.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, New York, Real

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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