Dylan Quotes - Page 10

• [Bob Dylan] is a preacher but also a sinner; a poet but also a pitchman; authentic all-American but also invented persona.

  Jay Michaelson

  Bob, Poet, Preacher

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Dylan Nice's Other Kinds is the most extraordinary short-story-col lection debut I have read in years.
  It is a book to be memorized.

  Gary Lutz

  Nice, Book, Years

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• To me, Godard did to movies what Bob Dylan did to music: they both revolutionized their forms.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Bob, Form

  Quentin Tarantino, Gerald Peary (2013). “Quentin Tarantino: Interviews, Revised and Updated”, p.73, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• In other words, I'd say the whole story of Bob Dylan is one man's search for God. The turns and the steps he takes to find God are his business. I think he went to a study group at the Vineyard, and it created a lot of excitement.

  T Bone Burnett

  Men, Thinking, Study Group

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• Bob Dylan wasn't a big star early on; it was the release of his Greatest Hits album in 1967, and the mainstream success of the stoner anthem "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" ("Everybody must get stoned!"), that really put him on the mainstream map.

  Bob Dylan

  Stars, Rainy Day, Albums

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• Anything but the void. And so we keep hoping to luck into a winning combination, to tap into a subtle harmony, trying like lock pickers to negotiate a compromise with the 'mystery tramp,' as Bob Dylan put it.

  Dennis Overbye

  Winning, Luck, Trying

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• Well, it seems that one day Dylan was drivin' up to San Francisco from New Orleans or somewhere, when our record [House of the Rising Sun] came over his radio. When it was announced he said to Joan Baez -- who was with him at the time -- 'This'll be the first time I've heard this version', although it was number one in the States. So he listened to it, stopped the car, ran round the car five times, banged his head on the bumper and began leapin' about shouting 'It's great! It's great!'

  Eric Burdon

  New Orleans, San Francisco, Numbers

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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

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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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• [Bob] Dylan's many quotations from classic American roots music (that song is from an album aptly titled Love and Theft) join the aging poet to a tradition that preceded him and hopefully will outlive him as well.

  Jay Michaelson

  Song, Roots, Bob

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• Bob Dylan wrote in his elliptical memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, he was washed up in the 1980s, no longer a commercial success, and no longer putting out good work.

  Bob Dylan

  Bob, Good Work, Volume

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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

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• In 1975,Bob Dylan was almost 10 years past his prime - and then he released the best album of his career, Blood on the Tracks. Written and recorded amid a painful divorce, Blood on the Tracks is proof that heartbreak makes great art - just as many of the albums that followed were the opposite.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Divorce, Past

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• The "joker" here ["All Along the Watchtower" ] is the older [Bob] Dylan himself, whining about exploitation, and the thief's rejoinder re-contextualizes the earlier critique into the religious frames that would become more prominent as time went on.

  Bob Dylan

  Religious, Thieves, Bob

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• Bob Dylan continues to release odd and unsettling records, and to do odd and unsettling things on stage. So the term "still" seems meaningless to me. But the real answer is simple: I listen to Bob Dylan for pleasure more than I listen to anyone else for pleasure.

  Greil Marcus

  Real, Simple, Records

  "This is Greil Marcus’ Brain on 'Shuffle'". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 18, 2010.

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• It's not name dropping, but not many people can say, like me, that they spent the day with the likes of Francis Bacon or that boring drunk Dylan Thomas. You don't forget things like that.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Names, People, Drunk

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• If I was to meet Lou Reed or Bob Dylan, I would be totally helpless. Writers and musicians make me feel completely starstruck.

  Toby Stephens

  Musician, Would Be, Bob

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

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• There has been a ton of excellent music in this period (along with a few misses), evoking scenes like a bar-room brawl at a border-town dive, a washed-up singer in a smoky lounge, and the scenes of violence in Bob Dylan latter-day music videos.I think the ethos of this period is best summed up in the 2001 song "Summer Days".

  Jay Michaelson

  Summer, Song, Thinking

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• Dylan Thomas, asked what he thought of Welsh Nationalism, replied in three words, two of which were 'Welsh Nationalism.'

  Avram Davidson

  Two, Three, Welsh

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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

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• [Bob] Dylan is a contemporary Don Quixote, at once besotted by the promise of America and yet also undermining it.

  Jay Michaelson

  America, Promise, Bob

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• [Bob] Dylan thus deserves the Nobel Prize, not just for "new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," as the Nobel committee aptly described his work, but also for embodying the contradictions within it.

  Jay Michaelson

  Song, Expression, Bob

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• I think Bob Dylan's a good songwriter. I think he's the best songwriter in the world probably.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Thinking, World, Bob

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that any songwriter - and I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us - you don't write the songs anyhow.

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music.

  Alan Lomax

  Song, Book, Village

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