Dylan Quotes - Page 10

• I'm not that kind of Bob Dylan, tortured creative.

  Ben Barnes

  Creative, Bob, Kind

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• Some people say Dylan Thomas mischievous, he's a child, and other people say he's quite demonic. I don't think we should dictate about him, if that's your view of him, that's wonderful, but it's great to know that other people think differently.

  Keira Knightley

  Children, Thinking, Views

  "The Edge of Love - Keira Knightley interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Why is this generation looking to aging icons like John Lennon and Bob Dylan for inspiration? Why not raising up their own icons?

  Tucker Carlson

  Inspiration, Icons, Bob

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. December 15, 2005.

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• It would be horrible if there was no competition. It's what people want to see - they either like you or they don't. Not everybody likes Van Gogh. Or Bob Dylan! So you have Neil Young...or Ozzy Osbourne.

  Kate Hudson

  People, Competition, Would Be

  "Full of joie de vivre". The Journal Interview, www.thejournal.co.uk. September 19, 2003.

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• My husband wasn't put off by it - he thought it was hilarious to see me dressed as Dylan! He didn't particularly want to kiss me with stubble all over my face - it felt a bit odd! But I think he's used to it [the make-up process].

  Cate Blanchett

  Husband, Kissing, Thinking

  "Elizabeth: The Golden Age - Cate Blanchett interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Bob Dylan said, "The executioner's face is always well-hidden". That's the problem: The cross pulls that hood off.

  Robert Barron

  Bob, Faces, Problem

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• People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there's a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up.

  PJ Harvey

  Country, Artist, People

  "PJ Harvey: On War And The New 'England'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 15, 2011.

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• The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody'd kicked open the door to your mind.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Mother, Song, Mean

  "Bob Dylan's original manuscript for Like a Rolling Stone's lyrics goes on sale". www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2014.

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• You can draw a line between what I'm interested in and what I'm not interested in. On one side you can name Dylan and Lennon, who observe the world and have feelings, and write songs directly from those feelings. On the vapid side you have pop groups who need material and write songs to fill the hole, rather than getting somebody else.

  Roger Waters

  Song, Writing, Names

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• I always knew that sooner or later there would come somebody like Woody Guthrie who could make a great song every week. Dylan certainly had a social agenda, but he was such a good poet that most of his attempts were head and shoulders above things that I and others were trying to do. ... If I had an address, I'd send him a birthday card saying, 'keep on going.'

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Trying, Cards

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• I heard Pete Seeger records when I was a kid. I saw Bob Dylan when I was about 12. The first song I ever learned to play was a song by Phil Ochs.

  Ketch Secor

  Song, Kids, Play

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Songs came first. I started out in 1965 trying to copy the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and the Stones, like most kids I knew. I'm still trying. Songs are hard to beat.

  Peter Blegvad

  Song, Kids, Trying

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I remember Bob Dylan saying in an interview that at a certain point he'd had to learn to do consciously what he'd previously done unconsciously or automatically. That resonates.

  Peter Blegvad

  Done, Bob, Interviews

  Interview with Franklin Bruno, believermag.com. November 1, 2009.

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• Dylan Landis knows how to unnerve a reader, even as she's appreciating being unnerved. Rainey Royal thrums with sex and power. A brave, exquisite book.

  Mary Kay Zuravleff

  Sex, Book, Appreciate

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• Bob Dylan's Christianity has been allusive, idiosyncratic, and never the sort to place him on anyone's side in any Kulturkampf.

  Christopher Caldwell

  Bob, Sides, Christianity

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• I like lots of songs, and I find it quite interesting to do [cover songs] from time to time. My first solo hit was in 1973, the Dylan song “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall.”

  Bryan Ferry

  Song, Fall, Rain

  "Hot Tracks: Bryan Ferry's New Solo Album, Avonmore". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. November, 2014.

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• I'm not Welsh and I didn't know that much about Dylan Thomas , and I saw that he's a huge icon of Welsh-ness.

  Tom Hollander

  Icons, Saws, Welsh

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm not as self-destructive as Dylan Thomas, but I've certainly been around that behavior enough to have found it a release. The thing that I really enjoyed was being able to play misery.

  Tom Hollander

  Self, Play, Able

  Source: collider.com

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• The thing about Bob Dylan's performative essence is that he keeps singing these old songs as well as the new songs, and the old songs become new with new arrangements and new contexts as time goes by.

  Richard F. Thomas

  Song, Essence, Singing

  Source: projects.iq.harvard.edu

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• Bob Dylan tends not to have geographical or chronological markers that tie a song to any specific context, so they stay alive, stay relevant.

  Richard F. Thomas

  Song, Ties, Alive

  Source: projects.iq.harvard.edu

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• Paste Magazine needs to stay in business! It's the first non-sensational quality music and film publication that doesn't only attempt to appeal to middle-aged male Bob Dylan completionists! And there are still many of us who love to pick up a print magazine instead of going online.

  Nina Persson

  Quality, Males, Needs

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• I knew Bob Dylan was searching for the truth and had been for years. And anyone who Really wants the truth ends up at Jesus

  Johnny Cash

  Jesus, Years, Bob

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• Most of the songs came from Europe and Africa and now they were coming back to us. Many of [Bob] Dylan's best songs came from Scotland, Ireland or England. It was a sort of cultural exchange.

  John Lennon

  Song, Europe, Scotland

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I really believe that Bob Dylan and others have speeded up the changes. Pacifism has found a voice at last.

  David Bowie

  Believe, Voice, Bob

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• After people like Lennon and Dylan, I think David Bowie brought a very modernistic intelligence and the necessity for change. I think he was completely positive, certainly through one and a half decades of completely overriding influence, in the best of popular music, and I take my bloody hat off to him!

  Roger Meddows Taylor

  Thinking, People, Half

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