Patti Smith
Musician
"When I was a teenager, I had trouble getting a boyfriend, so I imagined Arthur Rimbaud or Bob Dylan as my boyfriend."
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Bob
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Bob Marley
Musician, Singer-Songwriter
"I went deep inside myself. I had time to explore my beliefs and because of that I'm stronger. Bob Marley (March 1981)"
Sonny Bono
Musician, Actor, Politician
"If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they're comparing a criminal to an honest man."
Snoop Dogg
Rapper, Actor
"I have always said I was Bob Marley reincarnated."
Bob Dylan
Singer-songwriter
"Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I'm not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I've never thought about that before! He said, When you're not following me, you're resisting me."
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"[Bob] Dylan crashed his motorcycle in 1967, and almost died. A few years ago, he referred to the experience as a "transfiguration.""
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"I knew Bob Dylan was searching for the truth and had been for years. And anyone who Really wants the truth ends up at Jesus"
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"Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet."
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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."
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"Bob has never written a bad song. Bob Dylan is a genius."
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""Subterranean Homesick Blues" [of Bob Dylan] captures, in word-salad format, life in an encroaching police state."
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"Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues."
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"My golf-loving friend Bob Hope asked me what my handicap was, so I told him - the Congress."
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"I am a critic who is pulled toward history. But Bob Dylan himself is a great historian. He is an historian who acts out history. So it always has a personal stamp. It always has a particular timbre. It always has a particular howl, or a moan, in that voice."
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"I'm not that kind of Bob Dylan, tortured creative."
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"I really believe that Bob Dylan and others have speeded up the changes. Pacifism has found a voice at last."
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"Somebody had to be Bob Dylan. I guess I was best equipped to do the job."
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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."
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"You could live in Winnipeg a thousand years and not meet Ringo, Paul McCartney, or Bob Dylan."
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"Bill Clinton, Mr. Bob Dole, You too old to understand tha way tha game is told."
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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."
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"I'll never be Bob Dylan. He's the master."
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"If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself."
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"[Bob Dylan] was rarely tender and seldom reached out to anticipate another's needs."
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"I'd been going though his trash. He knocked me down. I was glad to see him, even though he was banging my head against the sidewalk. Afterwards these bums come over and say, 'Did he get much money?' I say, 'Money'? That was Bob Dylan."
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