Dylan Quotes - Page 2

• I loved working with Bob Dylan.

  Benmont Tench

  Bob

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

  Courtney Love

  Artist, Competition, Bob

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• I call it fan fatigue. I went to see Bob Dylan last year, who I think is absolutely incredible, but he suffers from his audience.

  Roger Daltrey

  Thinking, Years, Suffering

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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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• 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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• 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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• I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Bob, Buying

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• Forever Young, by Dylan, is one of my favorite songs.

  Levon Helm

  Song, Forever, My Favorite

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Whatever that ["transfiguration" by Bob Dylan] means, it's true that the poetic brilliance of the early career would never really reappear.

  Bob Dylan

  Mean, Careers, Bob

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• If I had an axe on the evening at Newport when [Dylan] broke out the electric guitar, I'd have cut his cable.

  Pete Seeger

  Cutting, Guitar, Evening

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• The drama teacher that I had in high school, back in Texas, was the only teacher who didn't kick me out of his class. He turned me on to 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.' I had picked up Dylan with 'Bringing It All Back Home,' and he turned me on to the first couple of albums, which I hadn't heard.

  Steve Earle

  Teacher, Couple, Drama

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• If Woody Guthrie set the bar for American songwriters, Bob Dylan jumped right over it. No one I know will ever come close to possessing the beauty of melody and the use of language that Dylan shares with us, with ease.

  John Mellencamp

  Bars, Use, Ease

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• To us, there was Bob Dylan, and there was dad. As for what he meant to other people, that was never glorified in our house. There were no accolades there, no gold records.

  Jakob Dylan

  Dad, People, House

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• Bob Dylan's one of the greatest blues singers of the western world; ancient art, on-the-spot improvisation, mind quickness, endless variation, classical formulae, prophetic vision, mighty wind-horse.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Horse, Art, Wind

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• There's no concession to the fact that Dylan might be a more sophisticated singer than Whitney Houston, that he's probably the most sophisticated singer we've had in a generation. Nobody is identifying our popular singers like a Matisse or Picasso. Dylan's a Picasso - that exuberance, range, and assimilation of the whole history of music.

  Leonard Cohen

  Houston, Singers, Might

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• There would be brilliant songs, but, as [Bob] Dylan admitted on the recent Martin Scorsese documentary about him (No Direction Home), the specific muse that inspired "It's Alright Ma" would not return.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Home, Would Be

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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