Dylan Quotes - Page 17

• The best songs of this [modern] period - the apocalyptic "High Water," for example - return [Bob] Dylan to where he was in his first phase, updating and transforming American traditional music.

  Jay Michaelson

  Song, Water, Phases

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• I always remember what Bob Dylan said in that [Martin] Scorsese documentary on him. When he was asked about Joan Baez's complaints about the way he treated her when they were together, Dylan laughed and said, "It's impossible to be in love and wise at the same time."

  Richard Gere

  Wise, Together, Documentaries

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• Along with a lot of other things, becoming a Bob Dylan fan made me a writer. I was never interested in figuring out what the songs meant. I was interested in figuring out my response to them, and other people's responses. I wanted to get closer to the music than I could by listening to it - I wanted to get inside of it, behind it, and writing about it through it, inside of it, behind it, was my way of doing that.

  Greil Marcus

  Song, Writing, People

  Greil Marcus (2011). “Bob Dylan: Writings 1968-2010”, p.17, Faber & Faber

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• [Bob] Dylan began to incorporate things into that scene that were controversial then. He got shouted at in Newport when he played electric guitar, for instance. There was a certain purity that was sought among those people.

  T Bone Burnett

  Guitar, People, Bob

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• Life is a musical influence in my experience. But as far as actual music and actual bands, uh, I'll just look at my little collection here. Let's see. Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, U2, The Talking Heads, Prince and the Revolution, Michael Jackson's Thriller was a huge one.

  Jeremy Enigk

  Talking, Musical, Looks

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• I am a critic who is pulled toward history. But Bob Dylan himself is a great historian. He is an historian who acts out history. So it always has a personal stamp. It always has a particular timbre. It always has a particular howl, or a moan, in that voice.

  Greil Marcus

  Voice, Bob, Timbre

  "Talkin’ Bob Dylan". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. October 19, 2010.

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• I stopped listening to Dylan with both ears after Highway 64 (sic) and Blonde on Blonde, and even then it was because George (Harrison) would sit me down and make me listen.

  John Lennon

  Listening, Blonde, Ears

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• I didn't come after Elvis and Dylan, I've been around always. But if I see or meet a great artist, I love 'em.

  John Lennon

  Artist, Ems, Great Art

  Jann Wenner, John Lennon (2001). “Lennon Remembers”, p.148, Verso

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• Folk music had long been political but [Bob] Dylan's poetry took it to a new level.

  Jay Michaelson

  Long, Political, Levels

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• What always attracted me to [Bob] Dylan, and what has sustained me as a Dylan listener, or has always continued to surprise me, is his voice, the way he sings, the way he wraps his voice around certain words, the way he backs off from melodic moments, the way he moves forward to grab something in a song that, were anybody else performing it, they would have no idea it was even there.

  Greil Marcus

  Song, Moving, Ideas

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• I never could understand - it was impossible for me to get my head around - what the furor was, what the sense of betrayal and anger and rage was about Bob Dylan's beginning to perform with a band, to play rock-and-roll, to get on the radio.

  Greil Marcus

  Betrayal, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  "Talkin’ Bob Dylan". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. October 19, 2010.

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• Back in the old days, everyone was shocked if a band had a sponsor for their tour. Now, Bob Dylan can do a commercial for Victoria's Secret and people don't really blink; the Beatles' songs are in all sorts of commercials these days and it doesn't seem to offend anybody. The times are changing.

  Judd Apatow

  Song, Times Are Changing, People

  Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. December 11, 2012.

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• I have Bob Dylan lyrics on my ribs. I'm a diehard Dylan fan, and my dad and I joke that if I ever met him, I'd have him sign his name right under my tattoo and then I'd run to the parlor to get his signature tattooed.

  Carly Chaikin

  Tattoo, Running, Dad

  "Suburgatory's Carly Chaikin is Nothing Like Her Character, Dalia. Count the Tattoos for Proof!" by Caitlin Brody, www.glamour.com. October 16, 2012.

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• You don't have to be the best guitar player, or have the best voice, or even be the best looking person - writing a song that moves people is worth more than all the other nonsense. (Just look at Bob Dylan - he's got almost no vocal range at all, but his songs are deeply moving and iconic.) If I had to offer one piece of advice: Write a song that moves people, and write it from within yourself. Your personal narrative is more engaging and moving than anything else you can imagine in your mind.

  Ryan Ross

  Song, Moving, Writing

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• Bob Dylan is the Jew of all time.

  Guy Oseary

  Bob, All Time, Jew

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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'm Dylan. I'm so cool. I want to date myself, but I don't know how! You want to date me instead? You're so lucky!

  Rick Riordan

  Lucky, Want, Lost Hero

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• They were playing old Bob Dylan, more than perfect for narrow Village streets close to Christmas and the snow whirling down in big feathery flakes, the kind of winter where you want to be walking down a city street with your arm around a girl like on the old record cover.

  Donna Tartt

  Girl, Winter, Cities

  Donna Tartt (2013). “The Goldfinch”, p.462, Hachette UK

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• You see Michelangelo and Picasso and you read literature. I had some innate inchoate yearning for that, but I never really saw where I would fit in. That's called art. And then something happened to pop music, which is that it became art under the hand of the Beatles, the Stones, and Bob Dylan and some other people.

  David Chase

  Art, Hands, People

  "David Chase's teenage dreams" by Lorraine Cwelich, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 20, 2012.

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• Well, I love Bob Dylan, let's make that clear. He's one of my musical heroes.

  Tim Heidecker

  Hero, Musical, Bob

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• Creativity is the life force that Dylan Thomas called 'the force that through the green fuse drives the flower.

  Julia Cameron

  Flower, Creativity, Green

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.19, Penguin

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• I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.

  Iris DeMent

  Cash, Bob, Haggard

  "The poor are treated like enemies". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. April 18, 1998.

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• Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won't bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say that I heard his records at a very young age and I still listen to all his records.

  Black Francis

  Age, Musician, Records

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• Celebrated in the Bob Dylan ballad “Joey”, Crazy Joe Gallo was a charismatic beatnik gangster whose forays into Greenwich Village in the 1960s inspired his bloody revolution against the Mafia.

  Tom Folsom

  Crazy, Mafia, Village

  "Gangster Chic: Joey Gallo" by Tom Folsom, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 17, 2009.

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• Somebody had to be Bob Dylan. I guess I was best equipped to do the job.

  Bob Dylan

  Jobs, Bob

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