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“Paul [ Burwell] and I had also got interested in…” quote by David Toop — Download Open image

“Paul [ Burwell] and I had also got interested in making books. We'd been working with Bob Cobbing, the sound poet, since the beginning of the 70s, and Bob had this press called Writers Forum.”

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I had the idea to do an anthology about instrument-making.

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Except in these latter-day songs, [Bob] Dylan is a grizzled old prophet who's already been to hell and back.

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Well. We’ll just have to hope that this wasn’t a loup-garou, I guess.” “If it was a louper, you’d know,” Bob said wisely. “In…

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Because of my tremendous respect for Bob Barker and for the show's high standards of professionalism I consider this a tremendous honor that few…

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That's who I wanted to be like was Bob Dylan.

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Everybody who I ever cared about has told me that they like my music: Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Al Green, The Spinners, Smokey Robinson.…

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Bob's work gleaned from hoofing, from vaudeville, from ballet.

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