Dylan Quotes

• 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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• In late [Bob] Dylan, music is the key to immortality, even though the summer days are long gone.

  Jay Michaelson

  Summer, Keys, Long

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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

  Thomas F. Wilson

  Bob, Said, Certain

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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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, Bob

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• Dylan doesn't have to make Blonde On Blonde every time.

  Warren Zevon

  Time, Blonde

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• I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Poet, Allan Poe, Diverse

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• Bob Dylan has a way with words that simply blows me away. When he forgets his lyrics he just makes up new ones on the spot, that is what I called talented!

  Gavin Rossdale

  Blow, Bob, Way

  FaceBook post by Gavin Rossdale from Mar 08, 2012

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• I can't stand Bob Dylan.

  Charlotte Church

  Bob, I Can

  "Voice of experience" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2005.

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• I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan.

  Bradley Whitford

  Fans, Bob, Want

  "Exclusive Interview: Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip's Bradley Whitford". Interview with Travis Fickett, www.ign.com. September 22, 2006.

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• Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

  Bob Dylan

  Lying, Want, Way

  Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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

  Burton Cummings

  Years, Bob, Thousand

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

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• The most memorable moment was playing drums with Bob Dylan.

  Jenna Elfman

  Memorable, Bob, Moments

  TV.com Interview, www.tv.com. June 14, 2006.

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• But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan's beard look good.

  Bill Walton

  Basketball, Mean, Civilization

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• When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.

  Bob Geldof

  Years, Careers, Stones

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• I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

  Bob Dylan

  Purpose, Chaos, Accepting

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

  Bob Dylan

  Beauty, Patriotism, Should

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

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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, Bob

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

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• Bob Dylan's first couple of records in the 60's weren't considered cover records, but he only wrote one or two original songs on each album.

  John Mellencamp

  Song, Couple, Two

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• Actually, I never liked Dylan's kind of music before; I always thought he sounded just like Yogi Bear.

  Mick Ronson

  Yogi Bear, Bears, Kind

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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, Bob

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• I'm a catalogue artist: I compete with Bob Dylan.

  Courtney Love

  Artist, Competition, Bob

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• I've been really, really blessed. I got to perform on stage with Bob Dylan. I've gotten to sing with Mick Jagger.

  Sheryl Crow

  Blessed, Bob, Stage

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• Forever Young, by Dylan, is one of my favorite songs.

  Levon Helm

  Song, Forever, My Favorite

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• And you don't want to just totally mess up the rhythm when you're playing with Bob Dylan.

  Jenna Elfman

  Bob, Want, Rhythm

  Interview with Lila Holland, www.tv.com. June 14, 2006.

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• And I don't expect anyone can bring about a revolution in the way that Bob Dylan did - and really didn't - in the 1960s.

  Michael Stipe

  Bob, Way, Revolution

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