Dylan Quotes - Page 14

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

  Linda Perry

  Names, Bob, Next

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

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• Somehow you can tell the difference when a song is written just to get on the radio and when what someone does is their whole life. That comes through in Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson. There is no separating their life from their music.

  Lyle Lovett

  Song, Differences, Bob

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

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• Flip on the news and watch how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are household names, but do you know the name of a single ‘victim’ of Columbine?

  Morgan Freeman

  Names, Oregon, Eric

  "Morgan Freeman Article Provides Valid View of the Sandy Hook Shootings and Our Media" by L. Steven Sieden, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2012.

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• Singer Boy Dylan was stopped at his own sow by security guards who failed to recognize the singer. Asked to comment, Dylan replied, 'I can hardly blame them. Look at me.'

  Craig Kilborn

  Boys, Security Guards, Looks

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• In some of the greatest recordings ever made, the performance is a part of the recording. Dylan's 'Rainy Day Women No. 12 and 35' is all about the esthetic of that performance. You can hear the room.

  Moby

  Rainy Day, Rooms, Made

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• The internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Networking, Bob, Next

  "Portrait of the artist: Jon Bon Jovi, musician". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2010.

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• The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.

  Jackson Browne

  Song, Writing, Guy

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• Everybody who I ever cared about has told me that they like my music: Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Al Green, The Spinners, Smokey Robinson. Everybody that matters.

  Daryl Hall

  Green, Bob, Matter

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

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• What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk music's always done. I'm not going to sing about ploughing, but I'll write a song that sounds like it should be about ploughing.

  Justin Townes Earle

  Song, Writing, Bob

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• I didn't sound anything like Capote at the screen test. It was more like Bob Dylan. In his early years. With the flu.

  Toby Jones

  Years, Bob, Flu

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.

  Aaron Levie

  Moving, College, Two

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• My parents were inspired by Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas when naming me. They specifically saved this masculine name for their only girl.

  Dylan Lauren

  Girl, Names, Parent

  "Dylan Lauren: 25 Things You Don’t Know About Me". www.usmagazine.com. May 01, 2013.

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• The early Bob Dylan was compulsively drawn to the conflict between stability and the search for immortality.

  Jon Landau

  Bob, Conflict, Immortality

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• It's got to be hard to be a band that's trading on your 40-year-old hits, where there's a certain thing that's expected of you. But that's why I admire Bob Dylan's live performances - he's steadfast about mixing up the songs, not just sticking to his greatest hits, and reinterpreting them to the extent that you really can't recognize them until halfway through. It's like, I DARE you to sing along.

  Amy Argetsinger

  Song, Years, Mixing

  Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. February 10, 2010.

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• One of the songs that stayed in my head that I really considered a lot was an old folk song called 'John Brown' - not the abolitionist John Brown, but the one that Bob Dylan has covered and sung before. It's about a boy coming home from the Civil War, or maybe World War I even, and about his Mother seeing him all destroyed.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Mother, Song, War

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• As a bit of loner, prone to melancholy, with a questionable sexuality, I found great solace in the words of-Dylan, Joni, John Prine and Leonard Cohen. The darker the better.

  Jill Sobule

  Loner, Melancholy, Sexuality

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I wanted to be an artist after all, and my teachers told me these were the best authors the 20th century had to offer. But these books sucked. They were so boring and sloppy and plotless. And Bob Dylan's lyrics seemed nonsensical to me - almost like he had just gotten high and written down whatever random thoughts occurred to him.

  Simon Rich

  Teacher, Book, Artist

  "Ridiculously Rich: The Rumpus Interview With Simon Rich". Interview with Maureen Miller, therumpus.net. June 9, 2010.

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• I’m too young and ridiculous a person to speak for my generation, but I’d be happy to talk about my own experiences as a generation Y writer. I was raised by a generation of hippies. Throughout my childhood, teachers urged me to fight the establishment. My English teacher assigned Ginsberg and Kerouac and declared Bob Dylan “a genius.” My science teacher told me that television was “the new opiate of the masses” and bragged about never having owned one. My drama teacher made us perform Beckett.

  Simon Rich

  Teacher, Drama, Hippie

  "Ridiculously Rich: The Rumpus Interview With Simon Rich". Interview with Maureen Miller, therumpus.net. June 9, 2010.

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• Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I can understand that.

  Steve Earle

  Writing, Years, People

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• I went on tours with [Bob] Dylan - the big one was in 1975 and called Roaring Thunder Review. I knew him well because I met him around the time he did his second album, in 1963. He recorded one of my songs called Shadows. In the 1970s, it was suggested that we do a duet, because we had the same manager, Albert Grossman, who also managed Odetta and Peter, Paul and Mary. Dylan and I respected what each other did, but I just decided not to do it.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Song, Shadow, Roaring

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• Usually when I write lyrics I try to read a lot and listen to a lot of other stuff. Some of my favourite lyricists are like Lou Reed, kind of the classics - Bob Dylan and stuff like that.

  Andrew VanWyngarden

  Writing, Trying, Bob

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• Nina Simone was an entertainer. Bob Dylan was an entertainer. Anyone that can occupy a piece of music and make the air catch on fire at that moment is a true entertainer. That's how I view it. That's what I was meant to do. I love doing it. That's why I'm on earth.

  Michael Gira

  Fire, Air, Views

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• As soon as I graduated from high school I was off to the biggest college my parents could afford, Colorado University at Boulder, having seen students there who looked a lot like Bob Dylan and Joan Baez.

  Susan Schneider

  School, College, Parent

  Source: thequietus.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, Bob, Radio

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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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