Dylan Quotes - Page 15

• I think, especially among the New York intelligentsia at that time, that there was a reason Bob Dylan went to New York to happen, because there was a culture developed there around the ideas of civil rights, around the idea of democracy growing out of Emerson and Thoreau, these ideas of the fanfare for the common man.

  T Bone Burnett

  New York, Men, Thinking

  "T Bone Burnett on the Making of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'". Interview with Hilary Hughes, www.esquire.com. November 20, 2013.

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• I always want to keep things unwritten. I'm inspired by Bob Dylan, who's kept evolving and changing his sound. I think that's what you should do as an artist. Why be comfortable?

  Lykke Li

  Artist, Thinking, Sound

  Source: pitchfork.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, Bob

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• After the Beatles and Dylan, there's this assumption that you are a singer-songwriter, or that if someone else is writing your rhymes, you're a fake rapper.

  Alan Light

  Writing, Rapper, Fake

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If it works for the piece of music, I'm going to use it. I don't want to be limited any more than [Bob] Dylan wanted to be limited by not using an electric guitar.

  Linda Perhacs

  Guitar, Use, Pieces

  Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. February 20, 2014.

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• I realized a lot of my friends were going to nightclubs and listening to house music. I was hanging out with them and going to clubs as well but I didn't really understand that kind of music. I was listening to country music and was heavily into Hank Williams, bluegrass, and Bob Dylan. So I just decided I really needed to understand what this music I was hearing in the clubs was all about.

  Hans-Peter Lindstrøm

  Country, House, Listening

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• By the time someone gave me some samples of standard screenplays I was already beyond that stuff, because I was not only a tinkerer in ways to do things, I'd started from Dylan Thomas. As a screen dramatist he was a very intense visualist, with great timing and fluency.

  William Monahan

  Stuff, Way, Fluency

  Source: collider.com

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• Saying directors don't write because they don't type is very wrong, it's like saying Dylan doesn't write music because he doesn't write notation.

  William Monahan

  Writing, Directors, Type

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't listen to hard rock or heavy metal. I suppose I've always been influenced by folk music, I'm a big Bob Dylan fan.

  Roger Glover

  Rocks, Bob, Fans

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I can't write story-songs, like I couldn't write a Bob Dylan or Tom Waits song. I can only write whatever weird phrases come into my head, and hope that they're good.

  Jay Watson

  Song, Writing, Waiting

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• The "Highway 61" album [of Bob Dylan] was produced by Bob Johnston if I'm not incorrect. And Bob Johnston was an entirely different producer than Tom Wilson. Tom Wilson had produced jazz records and was a Harvard educated.

  Al Kooper

  Different, Albums, Records

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• My musical tastes go from Zeppelin to Bob Dylan to Kanye West and Lil' Wayne. Anything modern and progressive.

  Josh Hartnett

  Musical, Zeppelins, Bob

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• I've had mentors who were kind of the troubadour singer-songwriters, like Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Neil Young, and that's just what I've always liked - people who would talk real honestly about their lives and their circumstance.

  Jewel

  Real, People, Mentor

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• Once I'd heard 'Modern Times' by Bob Dylan, it really changed the way I wanted to make records.

  Elton John

  Records, Bob, Way

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• I named my sons Brandon and Dylan after the Beverly Hills 90210 characters. Both of them were born in my bathroom. I had Dylan in my tub, and he came out underwater.

  Pamela Anderson

  Character, Son, Beverly Hills

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• I'm unhappy as Dylan Thomas was, because I'm not, but I've had my brushes with sadness.

  Tom Hollander

  Sadness, Unhappy, Brushes

  Source: collider.com

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• Plenty more of the Nays sound perfectly sincere, though. They may genuinely dislike [Bob] Dylan; they may even enjoy or admire him, but just don't think he's all that. Fair enough. The reaction of such folk seems to be chiefly amazement tinged with befuddlement: they've given him what? You're kidding me.

  David Bennun

  Thinking, Sound, May

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I love that Bob Dylan asked me to be in the first movie he wrote.

  Val Kilmer

  Bob, Firsts

  "The only other guy I've kissed was Colin Farrell, and Robert was... better". Interview with Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2005.

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• My musical influence is really from my father. He was a DJ in college. My parents met at New York University. So he listened to, you know, Motown, and he listened to Bob Dylan. He listened to Grateful Dead and Rolling Stones, but he also listened to reggae music. And he collected vinyl.

  Talib Kweli

  New York, Father, Grateful

  "Talib Kweli On Mainstream Hip-Hop And Honoring The Old School". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. April 24, 2013.

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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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• But can a song stop a war? If Bob Marley and Bob Dylan couldn't do it, it can't be done.

  Henry Rollins

  Song, War, Done

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I would just say there are no two roles that are more demanding than Bob Dylan of 1966 [Blanchett's role in 'I'm Not There'] and Carol Aird of 1952. I challenge any director out there to come up with a wider divide. I had to convince her to take the Dylan role, and that took effort. But with 'Carol,' she was already attached.

  Todd Haynes

  Two, Effort, Challenges

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• When I was a teenager, I had trouble getting a boyfriend, so I imagined Arthur Rimbaud or Bob Dylan as my boyfriend.

  Patti Smith

  Teenager, My Boyfriend, Bob

  "The Private World of Patti Smith". Interview with Joan Juliet Buck, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 30, 2015.

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• I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators. I am no where near as much of that as Bob Dylan. But when your antenna is up you are pretty fixated and there is not much room in your life for anything else.

  Ian Hunter

  Thinking, Bob, Rooms

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• Well, I don't let anyone record with me that is not a fan of mine or believe in my music. Everybody that records for me, from Bob Dylan on down to George Jones, everybody loves me and my music, and I knew they would do their best that they could do, and they did. I didn't doubt them a bit. There's some country people that I wouldn't want, which didn't record with me.

  Ralph Stanley

  Country, Believe, People

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