Dylan Quotes - Page 5

• My favorite Dylan song? I think it's 'Just Like a Woman.' It always makes me cry.

  Bob Saget

  Song, Thinking, Cry

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• [on River Phoenix] I would love to see what kind of choices he would be making now if he was still around, some of the characters that he would have played. I mean, to me he was like a rock star, you know, he had it all: he had the looks, he had a great name, he had an attitude, an energy, an excitement about him. He was instinctively like a, he was a rebel, you know? He was kind of Bob Dylan to me, at times, and he had a lot to say. And I've never seen too many interviews by him, but the ones that I saw were pretty electric, pretty... he was switched on, definitely.

  Jim Sturgess

  Stars, Attitude, Character

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

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• Producing Bob Dylan was pretty much a spectator sport.

  Al Kooper

  Sports, Bob, Spectators

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• Musically Bob [Dylan] is a primitive. He's not a Gershwin, or somebody that uses eloquent music terms.

  Al Kooper

  Use, Bob, Term

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• Only through sheer ambition did I end up playing on [Bob Dylan sessions] and the fact that I could do that is a testament to how disorganized it really was.

  Al Kooper

  Ambition, Bob, Facts

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• The [Bob] Dylan sessions were very disorganized, to say the least. I mean, the "Like A Rolling Stone" session I was invited by the producer to watch.

  Al Kooper

  Mean, Rolling, Watches

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• On another front of the category-error argument are the insufferable fogeys who think the [Nobel] award is an outrage upon literature itself. That the problem is not simply a mistake may have been made about definitions, but that awful vulgarians are encroaching upon their sacred places. [Bob] Dylan, to them, is the harbinger of the low-culture mob; the latest in an unending number of final straws, or the thin end of a wedge that never seems to get thicker.

  David Bennun

  Mistake, Thinking, Numbers

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I think it was Columbia politics, Columbia Records politics that, that, Tom Wilson left [Bob Dylan] after "Like A Rolling Stone".

  Al Kooper

  Thinking, Rolling, Records

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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 think Bob [Dylan] told me that he turned down twenty interviews that year, and I was the only one that he sat down and did an interview with. And, he said that it was one of his highlights, and it was one of my highlights. And, I was very glad to talk with Bob. I found out that he was a good fan of mine, and that tickled me.

  Ralph Stanley

  Thinking, Years, Twenties

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I have plenty of good friends that I think the world of - and Bob [Dylan] is one of them, and I like his music - but with some others... their music I just don't care too much about all of it. Some of it I like.

  Ralph Stanley

  Good Friend, Thinking, World

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Meanwhile, the disgruntled "natives" of the West remain empty-handed and keep baying for blood, stuck on the caboose of the train, like Bob Dylan used to sing. Despair will always be a merchandize so long as we refuse to confront these lies head-on.

  Andre Naffis-Sahely

  Lying, Blood, Long

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I was very engaged by the folk music movement.Bob Dylan; Joan Baez; Peter, Paul and Mary. And then I sort of discovered world music, and fell in love with ethnic music of all sorts.

  Jill Stein

  Movement, World, Bob

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Bob Dylan is one of the very few people in the history of popular music who you can unquestionably apply that word [genius] to.

  Steve Earle

  People, Bob, Genius

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• From the moment [Bob] Dylan arrived as a songwriter, he was [so] much better than everybody else around.

  Steve Earle

  Bob, Moments, Songwriters

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.

  Steve Earle

  Bob, Aliens

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I was comparatively late in understanding Bob Dylan's overwhelming importance as a songwriter. Everybody who does my job exists in the shadow of Bob Dylan. There are two categories: Dylan and everybody else. It's as simple as that. And it's going to be that way until he dies.

  Steve Earle

  Jobs, Simple, Two

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• One night around that time, at Hammersmith, Bob Dylan was about to go into [his 1963 classic] 'Don't Think Twice, It's Alright.He said, 'Hey, Bucky! Play mandolin on this.' I am not really a mandolin player; I could only play in certain keys. Halfway through, he stops the band, turns to the audience and points to me. He says: 'He isn't playing, he's miming.' And then: 'Should I fire him?' The whole audience yells.

  Bob Dylan

  Player, Night, Thinking

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• [Bob Dylan] was rarely tender and seldom reached out to anticipate another's needs.

  Bob Dylan

  Needs, Bob, Anticipate

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• His [Bob Dylan] humour was dry and splendid.

  Bob Dylan

  Dry, Bob, Splendid

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• Bob has never written a bad song. Bob Dylan is a genius.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Genius, Bob

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• There were only a few seats left in coach and Bob found himself seated next to a young female fan. 'I can't believe I'm sitting next to Bob Dylan!' she screamed.'Pinch yourself,' said Bob."

  Bob Dylan

  Believe, Fans, Female

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• There are some singer-songwriters who start out as poets. So someone like Leonard Cohen wrote and published poetry in the early 60s, but then started writing songs. Bob Dylan's a poet in the sense of bard, aoidos or vates.

  Richard F. Thomas

  Song, Writing, Bob

  Source: projects.iq.harvard.edu

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• Bob Dylan truly is a poet whose song is part of the poetry.

  Richard F. Thomas

  Song, Bob, Poet

  Source: projects.iq.harvard.edu

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• I don't think I ever wrote a song. I can write a lot of jokes, but when I try to write lyrics they're the most direct, non-figurative words, like, 'I like you, I like you,'... and that's it, for the whole song. People would go, 'Ooh, this guy's Dylan or something.' It gives me a lot more respect for songwriters, actually.

  Demetri Martin

  Song, I Like You, Writing

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