Bob Dylan Quotes - Page 35

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• I see the turning of the page, curtain rising on a new age, see the groom still waiting at the altar.

  Bob Dylan

  Waiting, Age, Rising

  "Song: "The Groom's Still Waiting At The Altar" ("Shot of Love")". 1981.

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• The exploitation and superficiality of mainstream America is the object not of [Bob] Dylan's hipster scorn, but of an apocalyptic parable of holy fools and righteous thieves - the kind of imagery that Dylan's later work would explore more fully.

  Bob Dylan

  Hipster, America, Thieves

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Along with some of the worst music of Bob Dylan's career ("Self-Portrait," 1970), this period produced some gems - including many songs recorded with The Band in '67 but not released until years later.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Self, Years

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• It was [meeting with Nicolas Sarkozy] like looking at my mirror image.

  Bob Dylan

  Mirrors, Mirror Image, Meetings

  "Why Bob Dylan deserves the Nobel Prize in Literature" by Robert Chalmers, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. October 13, 2016.

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• You know, sometimes a person's reputation can be far more colossal than the influence of the person. I don't pay any attention to it anymore.

  Bob Dylan

  Attention, Pay, Reputation

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It was better to be in chains with friends than in a garden with strangers. [An ancient Persian proverb.] So true, huh?

  Bob Dylan

  Garden, Ancient, Stranger

  "Why Bob Dylan deserves the Nobel Prize in Literature" by Robert Chalmers, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. Ocotber 13, 2016.

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• Whatever people see - TV in my mind forms people's opinions.

  Bob Dylan

  People, Mind, Tvs

  Source: www.needsomefun.net

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• Fame it's like... When you look through a window, say you pass a little pub, or an inn. You look through the window and you see people talking and carrying on. You,can watch outside the window and see them all being very real with each other. But when you walk into the room, it's over. I don't pay any attention to it.

  Bob Dylan

  Real, Talking, People

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• "Subterranean Homesick Blues" [of Bob Dylan] captures, in word-salad format, life in an encroaching police state.

  Bob Dylan

  Police, Bob, Salad

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Ironically, this was Bob Dylan's period [1967-74] of greatest fame.

  Bob Dylan

  Bob, Fame, Periods

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• Just in time for Bob Dylan to recoil from the attention, leave the city for Woodstock, and turn his back on fame.

  Bob Dylan

  Cities, Attention, Bob

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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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] Dylan's broken-heart songs are so much better. Like "Simple Twist of Fate".

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Heart, Fate

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I don't think there's enough guns.

  Bob Dylan

  Gun, Thinking, Enough

  Source: www.needsomefun.net

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• The confessional singer-songwriter movement of the 1970s was in full swing, and Bob Dylan's emotional album [ Blood on the Tracks] resonated with the times. There would be other hits, but never the same alchemy of emotion and time.

  Bob Dylan

  Emotional, Swings, Blood

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• In the meantime [1965-67], [Bob] Dylan was again writing some of the best love songs in the genre, like "Visions of Johanna," "Just Like a Woman," and "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands."

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Best Love, Writing

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I think of rock 'n' roll as a combination of country blues and swing band music, not Chicago blues, and modern pop.

  Bob Dylan

  Country, Thinking, Rocks

  "Bob Dylan: 'Passion is a young man's game, older people gotta be wise'". Interview with Robert Love, www.independent.co.uk. February 7, 2015.

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• Sometimes you get out from behind the wheel and let someone else step on the gas.

  Bob Dylan

  Wheels, Steps, Sometimes

  Interview with Bill Flanagan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 16, 2009.

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• Early on, before rock 'n' roll, I listened to big band music - anything that came over the radio - and music played by bands in hotels that our parents could dance to. We had a big radio that looked like a jukebox, with a record player on the top. The radio/record player played 78rpm records. When we moved to that house, there was a record on there, with a red label. It was Bill Monroe, or maybe it was the Stanley Brothers. I'd never heard anything like that before. Ever. And it moved me away from all the conventional music that I was hearing.

  Bob Dylan

  Brother, Player, Rocks

  "Bob Dylan interview: 'Passion is a young man's game, older people gotta be wise' UK exclusive: Folk legend on why he's taking a turn as a crooner for his latest album". Interview with Robert Love, www.independent.co.uk. February 7, 2015.

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• Every singer has three or four or five techniques, and you can force them together in different combinations. Some of the techniques you discard along the way, and pick up others. But you do need them. It's just like anything. You have to know certain things about what you're doing that other people don't know. Singing has to do with techniques and how many you use at the same time. One alone doesn't work. There's no point to going over three. But you might interchange them whenever you feel like it. It's a bit like alchemy.

  Bob Dylan

  People, Singing, Together

  "Bob Dylan interview: 'Passion is a young man's game, older people gotta be wise'". Interview with Robert Love, www.independent.co.uk. February 7, 2015.

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• We shouldn't confuse singers and performers with actors. Actors will say, "My character this, and my character that." Like beating a dead horse. Who cares about the character? Just get up and act. You don't have to explain it to me.

  Bob Dylan

  Horse, Character, Who Cares

  Interview with Bill Flanagan, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 13, 2009.

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• Up north, you could find these radio stations with no name on the dials that played pre-rock 'n' roll things - country blues. We would hear Slim Harpo or Lightnin' Slim and gospel groups, the Dixie Hummingbirds, the Five Blind Boys of Alabama. I was so far north, I didn't even know where Alabama was.

  Bob Dylan

  Country, Boys, Rocks

  "Bob Dylan interview: 'Passion is a young man's game, older people gotta be wise'". Interview with Robert Love, www.independent.co.uk. February 7, 2015.

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