Dylan Quotes - Page 2

• Bob Dylan is out of the mentorship of Allen Ginsberg.

  Peter Fonda

  Mentor, Bob, Ginsberg

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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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• Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.

  Steve Earle

  Coffee, Cowboy, Boots

  "Q&A: Earle takes songwriting break to honor Van Zandt". Interview with Robert Levine, www.reuters.com. April 24, 2009.

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

  Courtney Love

  Artist, Competition, Bob

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• Sometimes you just can't walk away from films you're offered, like the Dylan Thomas thing.

  Dougray Scott

  Sometimes, Film, Walks

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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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• The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.

  John Thorn

  Summer, Hero, Boys

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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 would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I`ve known in my life. That`s just the truth.

  David Geffen

  Bob, Economy, Persons

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• I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan's look good.

  Bill Walton

  Sports, Looks, Hemisphere

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• Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.

  Don Van Vliet

  Bob, Slugs, Impress

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• Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes.

  Pete Townshend

  Thinking, Long, Rolling

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• Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Outer Limits series. It was sort of the two hour pilot movie.

  Beau Bridges

  Kings, Father, Two

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

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• I have three dads: my biological father, God and Bob Dylan.

  Jack White

  Dad, Father, Three

  "The Mysterious Case of the White Stripes" by David Fricke, www.rollingstone.com. September 8, 2005.

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• We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Past, Glasses, Networking

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

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• Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it's not just a record, it's a movement.

  Seth Godin

  Music, Powerful, Records

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• Yeah, and so Max and Dylan are supposed to, like, go to Germany and have kids together," I heard Gazzy say. My eyes popped open and I bolted upright. "What?" Fang said, his voice icy. "Gazzy!" I yelled. Wide blue eyes looked at me in surprise, then back at Fang's stoic face. "Oh. Was I not supposed to say anything?" Gazzy asked.

  James Patterson

  Kids, Eye, Blue

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• One of my friends was a stage hand at a Bob Dylan show in the mid-90s and I remember him telling me that somebody crowd surfed during the gig. And this friend of mine was an old punk rock guy - he was totally humiliated by it. But some of Bob's people were there and they said, "Oh, Bob will be so excited! This is the kind of energy we want at his shows." That's where the old school was at.

  Ian MacKaye

  School, People, Guy

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• I don't think I have any right to say I belong to that [Woody Guthrie/Bob Dylan tradition]. I think that's something that eventually maybe you get inducted into. I'm just experimenting.

  Justin Townes Earle

  Writing, Thinking, Bob

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• I started with the chorus of that song, kind of like a fun bouncy thing to play, and then one of the lines popped up: 'I got things to do today, people to see, things to say.' I wrote about a dozen verses for it, but no song needs to be that long unless you're Bob Dylan. So when we recorded it I started to tear it down to some of the lines I thought were the funniest.

  Jorma Kaukonen

  Song, Fun, Writing

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• Songwriting is like fishing in a stream; you put in your line and hope to catch something. And I don't think anyone downstream from Bob Dylan ever caught anything.

  Arlo Guthrie

  Thinking, Fishing, Lines

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• I love Dylan. I only met him once, about three years ago, back at the Kettle of Fish on MacDougal Street. That was before I went to England. I think both of us were pretty drunk at the time, so he probably doesn’t remember it.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Thinking, Years, Drunk

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• I love Bob Dylan, I really do. I love his early work, I love the first time he plugged in electrically, I love his Christian albums, I love his other albums.

  Johnny Cash

  Christian, Albums, Bob

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• I think we have responsibilities to be active in the things we believe in, regardless of what our job is. At least in my lifetime, there has been a tremendous combining of activism and music, that came up in the era of Pete Seeger and the Weavers and Joan Baez and Bob Dylan and Peter Paul & Mary.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Jobs, Believe, Responsibility

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• The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.

  Ed Sheeran

  Wicked, Fans, Stories

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

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