Dylan Quotes - Page 7

• Why is this generation looking to aging icons like John Lennon and Bob Dylan for inspiration? Why not raising up their own icons?

  Tucker Carlson

  Inspiration, Icons, Bob

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. December 15, 2005.

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• It would be horrible if there was no competition. It's what people want to see - they either like you or they don't. Not everybody likes Van Gogh. Or Bob Dylan! So you have Neil Young...or Ozzy Osbourne.

  Kate Hudson

  People, Competition, Would Be

  "Full of joie de vivre". The Journal Interview, www.thejournal.co.uk. September 19, 2003.

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• My husband wasn't put off by it - he thought it was hilarious to see me dressed as Dylan! He didn't particularly want to kiss me with stubble all over my face - it felt a bit odd! But I think he's used to it [the make-up process].

  Cate Blanchett

  Husband, Kissing, Thinking

  "Elizabeth: The Golden Age - Cate Blanchett interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Bob Dylan said, "The executioner's face is always well-hidden". That's the problem: The cross pulls that hood off.

  Robert Barron

  Bob, Faces, Problem

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• People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there's a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up.

  PJ Harvey

  Country, Artist, People

  "PJ Harvey: On War And The New 'England'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 15, 2011.

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• The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody'd kicked open the door to your mind.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Mother, Song, Mean

  "Bob Dylan's original manuscript for Like a Rolling Stone's lyrics goes on sale". www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2014.

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• Do not trust people who call themselves musicians or record collectors who say that they don’t like Bob Dylan or the Beatles. They do not love music if those words come out of their mouths.

  Jack White

  People, Musician, Records

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• In Paris in 1964 was the first time I ever heard Dylan at all. Paul got the record (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan) from a French DJ. For three weeks in Paris we didn't stop playing it. We all went potty about Dylan.

  John Lennon

  Music, Paris, Three

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• We're often afraid to do anything unless we know we can do it extremely well. But we get to Carnegie Hall by practicing. I remember how freeing it was several years ago to read in an interview with Joan Baez that some of Bob Dylan's early songs weren't so wonderful. We have this image of genius springing fully grown out of Zeus' forehead.

  Marianne Williamson

  Song, Years, Genius

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• Unlike so many Dylan-writer-wannabes and phony 'encyclopedia' compilers, Sean Wilentz makes me feel he was in the room when he chronicles events that I participated in. Finally a breath of fresh words founded in hardcore, intelligent research.

  Al Kooper

  Intelligent, Research, Rooms

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• The bible is very resonant. It has everything, creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the bible and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan. Of course there are stories that are still relevant and inspiring; lessons that need to be taught over and over again. And they give people hope.

  Patti Smith

  Betrayal, Sacrifice, People

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• I'm not as self-destructive as Dylan Thomas, but I've certainly been around that behavior enough to have found it a release. The thing that I really enjoyed was being able to play misery.

  Tom Hollander

  Self, Play, Able

  Source: collider.com

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• Bob Dylan seems to me a totally pernicious influence - the nasal whine of death and masochism. Certainly, this would be a more cheerful world if there were no Dylan records in it. But Dylan and his audience mirror each other, and deserve each other; as Marx said, a morbid society creates its own morbid grave-diggers.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Mirrors, Cheerful, Would Be

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• I still prefer to hear [Bob] Dylan acoustic, some of his electric songs are absolutely great. Electric music is the vernacular of the second half of the twentieth century, to use my father's old term.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Father, Use

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

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• I've listened to Dylan my entire life. My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, and all that kind of stuff. It opened up a whole world of this music that I'm now obsessed with.

  Oscar Isaac

  Dad, Cat, Fans

  "Inside Llewyn's Oscar Isaac on the Coen Brothers, Bob Dylan & Success". Interview with Tim Lammers, www.esquire.com. December 8, 2013.

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• Joaquin Sabina is one of my favorites. He's like a legend. He's like our Bob Dylan, or our Bruce Springsteen. He's one of the most talented writers of our Latin music.

  Juanes

  Latin, Bob, Legends

  "Juanes: A Superstar Slows Down, Shifts Gears". Interview with Mandalit Del Barco, www.kalw.org. August 16, 2012.

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• Within the microcosm of a film you get drawn to people. There are certain projects you care enormously about, and 'The Edge Of Love' was one because I was portraying a great hero of mine, Dylan Thomas.

  Matthew Rhys

  Hero, People, Care

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• Bob Dylan started out as a folk rip- off but he quickly ran with complex influences and it ended up to be his own sound.

  Daniel Smith

  Rip, Sound, Bob

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• I think I'm the oldest new Bob Dylan around. I predate Bruce Springsteen, Steve Forbat and John Prine. I was probably the first of the new Bob Dylans.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Thinking, Bob, Firsts

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• If poetry were nothing but texture, [Dylan] Thomas would be as good as any poet alive. The what of his poems is hardly essential to their success, and the best and most brilliantly written pieces usually say less than the worst.

  Randall Jarrell

  Essentials, Would Be, Pieces

  "Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964". Book by Randall Jarrell,"Poetry in a Dry Season" (p. 36), 1980.

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• I think that's what Dylan's trying to do: to create a space artistically where something else can take shape, can take life - where there's hope.

  Sean Wilentz

  Thinking, Space, Trying

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• If Bob Dylan really is an historian in and of himself in his work, in his performances, he is also an historian with a unique sense of humor. There's always been a bit of a stand-up comic in him.

  Greil Marcus

  Unique, Bob, Sense Of Humor

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• He [Johnny Cash] always wanted to use his music to lift other people up, to say no matter how much trouble, there's hope. That was always his message in his songs. That's why he and [Bob] Dylan bonded so much, because they were both trying to do something meaningful.

  Robert Hilburn

  Meaningful, Song, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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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 first met (Bob Dylan) in '65. We've had a friendship for a long time. He decided to play on a record I was making in New York. We were just friends playing together.

  Doug Sahm

  New York, Play, Long

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