Bob Quotes - Page 26

• I was comparatively late in understanding Bob Dylan's overwhelming importance as a songwriter. Everybody who does my job exists in the shadow of Bob Dylan. There are two categories: Dylan and everybody else. It's as simple as that. And it's going to be that way until he dies.

  Steve Earle

  Jobs, Simple, Two

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.

  Steve Earle

  Aliens, Dylan

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• From the moment [Bob] Dylan arrived as a songwriter, he was [so] much better than everybody else around.

  Steve Earle

  Moments, Dylan, Songwriters

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• Bob Dylan is one of the very few people in the history of popular music who you can unquestionably apply that word [genius] to.

  Steve Earle

  People, Genius, Dylan

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I was recently in Israel doing my work and casting for models in the streets of Haifa and Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, meeting young Israelis and Palestinians and Falasha, Ethiopian Jews who had migrated to Israel in the '70s. They're obsessed with Bob Marley. They're obsessed with Kanye West. They're obsessed with resistance culture, people who find that they're not necessarily comfortable in their own personal and national skin.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Israel, People, Skins

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I was very engaged by the folk music movement.Bob Dylan; Joan Baez; Peter, Paul and Mary. And then I sort of discovered world music, and fell in love with ethnic music of all sorts.

  Jill Stein

  Movement, World, Peter

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I thought the idea Jim [Carrey] had, which was to do a comedic version of movies like The Hand That Rocks The Cradle and Unlawful Entry, was really funny. The movie was a little lighter when we first came on, a little more like What About Bob? or something.

  Judd Apatow

  Ideas, Rocks, Hands

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 1, 2011.

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• Meanwhile, the disgruntled "natives" of the West remain empty-handed and keep baying for blood, stuck on the caboose of the train, like Bob Dylan used to sing. Despair will always be a merchandize so long as we refuse to confront these lies head-on.

  Andre Naffis-Sahely

  Lying, Blood, Long

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'll be 50 years old tomorrow and that means, among other things, that now Bob Dole can start telling jokes about me.

  David Letterman

  Mean, Years, Tomorrow

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• There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.

  Wyclef Jean

  Artist, Hip Hop, Pieces

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• I'll be like Bob Hope, touring when I'm 100.

  Dolly Parton

  Touring

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• When I'm bored or tired of being blonde, I'll throw on a wig. It's a lot less of a permanent way to change your look, and I have about 10 - all different colors, shapes, bobs, long hair, short, feathered.

  Sara Blakely

  Tired, Hair, Color

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• When Johnny Cash died, ... I picked up my guitar and got the idea that Bob Dylan was the last man standing, the last of the real gods. It was for Dylan, Cash, Lennon, Elvis that's what I was thinking.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Real, Men, Thinking

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• The big change was reggae and hip-hop, which came along after Split Enz had started. When Bob Marley first visited New Zealand, he lit a fuse that is still burning very brightly. The Maori people particularly honor reggae music in a very big way. So there is a strong reggae scene and a strong hip-hop scene, especially among Samoans. There's still plenty of quirky stuff around. No one expects to make much money here, so it definitely does encourage an underground sense.

  Tim Finn

  Strong, People, Hip Hop

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• I am flattered that Bob Carter should ask me to launch what I think is a significant new book on climate change. I have developed a very high regard for Bob in the years that I have known him. He has been a terrific and leading voice in combatting the scare mongering that we have all been subjected to on the theory of anthropogenic global warming.

  Nick Minchin

  Book, Thinking, Years

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• If the song was upbeat, we'd get out a funky Harry Connick, Jr. album, some Louis Prima big band, or a Bob Wills swing record for inspiration and swing for the fence, hoping to get that 'soundtrack to your life' vibe. And if it was a slow song, we'd go the other way and really make it worshipful.

  Bart Millard

  Song, Inspiration, Swings

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• I like things to be orderly. For seven years I ate at Bob's Big Boy. I would go at 2:30, after the lunch rush. I ate a chocolate shake and four, five, six, seven cups of coffee-with lots of sugar. And there's lots of sugar in that chocolate shake. It's a thick shake. In a silver goblet. I would get a rush from all this sugar, and I would get so many ideas! I would write them on these napkins. It was like I had a desk with paper. All I had to do was remember to bring my pen, but a waitress would give me one if I remembered to return it at the end of my stay. I got a lot of ideas at Bob's.

  David

  Coffee, Writing, Boys

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• At the end of the playback of the take of "Like A Rolling Stone", or actually during the thing, Bob Dylan said to the producer, turn up the organ. And Tom Wilson said, oh man, that guy's not an organ player. And Dylan said, I don't care, turn the organ up, and that's really how I became an organ player.

  Al Kooper

  Player, Men, Guy

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• I think it was Columbia politics, Columbia Records politics that, that, Tom Wilson left [Bob Dylan] after "Like A Rolling Stone".

  Al Kooper

  Thinking, Rolling, Records

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• I loved both [Bob] Seger and the Eagles, knowing why they didn't play some of the songs I wanted to hear. But at the same time, they covered all the big bases, and the stuff that most people had heard. But they definitely had a bunch of album cuts that I wanted to hear that they didn't get around to.

  Toby Keith

  Song, Cutting, Eagles

  "Q&A: The uncut Toby Keith interview". Interview with Ben Wener, www.ocregister.com. August 30, 2007.

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• I was a working-class kid from Boston. But I never lost my accent because I felt like that was what I was doing. I didn't have to perform Woody Guthrie like Bob Dylan did in the '60s, I just had to make myself be Eileen Myles and let that be my shield.

  Eileen Myles

  Kids, Boston, Class

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I started writing again, especially when I listened to French music and Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, I realized that these lots talked about themselves. The greatest artists, they didn't sing; they only spoke.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Writing, Artist, Spokes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I try to be even-handed and fair-minded about my view of history. I don't romanticize one side and demonize the other, though I do think that if you're suffering a lot, especially in the Bob Marley sense, suffering becomes a kind of university out of which you'll learn some hard lessons.

  Fred D'Aguiar

  Thinking, Views, Suffering

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm in a position I never imagined I'd be in as a musician. Bob Dylan built an audience through recording and live shows. The opportunities for an artist today are totally different.

  Ben Sollee

  Artist, Opportunity, Musician

  "Ben Sollee Interview | Activism by cello? On a bike?". Interview with Amanda Taylor, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• My main influences are pop and folk music - Bob Lind, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, the Motown collection, The Zombies, Elliott Smith, and a ton of 70's AM radio hits. I love powerpop too.

  Greta Salpeter

  Zombie, Radio, Influence

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