Bob Dylan Quotes
114 quotes by 93 authors
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In the '60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protest song. There were songs about the…
— George Clooney
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Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so…
— Kurt Cobain
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Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it's not just a record, it's a movement.
— Seth Godin
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Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams...all of them are different styles, but those are the songs that make the times...they're the songs that…
— Dolly Parton
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I don't think I have any right to say I belong to that [Woody Guthrie/Bob Dylan tradition]. I think that's something that eventually maybe you…
— Justin Townes Earle
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I started with the chorus of that song, kind of like a fun bouncy thing to play, and then one of the lines popped up:…
— Jorma Kaukonen
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Songwriting is like fishing in a stream; you put in your line and hope to catch something. And I don't think anyone downstream from Bob…
— Arlo Guthrie
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I love Bob Dylan, I really do. I love his early work, I love the first time he plugged in electrically, I love his Christian…
— Johnny Cash
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Bob Dylan is out of the mentorship of Allen Ginsberg.
— Peter Fonda
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I've been really, really blessed. I got to perform on stage with Bob Dylan. I've gotten to sing with Mick Jagger.
— Sheryl Crow
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I have Bob Dylan lyrics on my ribs. I'm a diehard Dylan fan, and my dad and I joke that if I ever met him,…
— Carly Chaikin
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Bob [Dylan] is not authentic at all. He's a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception. We are…
— Joni Mitchell
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And you don't want to just totally mess up the rhythm when you're playing with Bob Dylan.
— Jenna Elfman
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My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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Somebody had to be Bob Dylan. I guess I was best equipped to do the job.
— Bob Dylan
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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…
— Robert Fitzgerald
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The current tax code is harder to understand than Bob Dylan reading Finnegans Wake in a wind tunnel.
— Dennis Miller
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And I don't expect anyone can bring about a revolution in the way that Bob Dylan did - and really didn't - in the 1960s.
— Michael Stipe
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Then about 12 years ago it dawned on me that folk music - the music of Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs, early Bob Dylan, Johnny…
— Tom Morello
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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
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