"Bob Dylan was the source of pop music's……" — Jon Landau
"Bob Dylan was the source of pop music's unpredictability in the Sixties. Never as big a record-seller as commonly imagined, his importance was first aesthetic and social, and then as an influence."
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41 Quotes by Jon Landau
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One gets the impression that Elvis Presley does what his business advisors think will be most profitable. My advice to…
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The modern recording studio, with its well-trained engineers, 24-track machines and shiny new recording consoles, encourages the artist to get…
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'Call Me' is not an exceptional Al Green album, but it is as solid as a rock at its center.
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I saw rock n' roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.
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In the end, the sign of Aretha Franklin's artistry is that she always leaves her mark - first, on the…
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It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made…
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'Let's Get It On' is a classic Motown single, endlessly repeatable and always enjoyable.
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My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my…
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Ringo Starr may not have much of a voice, but when he sang a song on a Beatle album, it…
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The Beatles production is often so 'perfect' that it sounds computerized. 'Sgt. Pepper' really does sound like it took four…
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The early Bob Dylan was compulsively drawn to the conflict between stability and the search for immortality.
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There is absolutely no doubt that the extraordinary Donna Summer belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics…
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I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A…
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I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic…
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A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.
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