"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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"When I was very, very young, I decided that I was gonna catalogue my times because that's what other people who I admired did. That's what Bob Dylan did, that's what Frank Sinatra did, Hank Williams did, in very different ways."
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"I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him."
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"If Bob Dylan really is an historian in and of himself in his work, in his performances, he is also an historian with a unique sense of humor. There's always been a bit of a stand-up comic in him."
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"I would never say that being Bob Marley's son has been a pressure. It has been a door opener."
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"His [Bob Dylan] humour was dry and splendid."
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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 albums, I love his other albums."
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"The reason I do what I do is because I was influenced by Steve Martin, by Woody Allen, by Bob Newhart, by Carol Burnett, by Lucille Ball."
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"Bob Dylan started out as a folk rip- off but he quickly ran with complex influences and it ended up to be his own sound."
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"[Bob Fosse] was a temperamental fellow - it was his way or the highway."
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"I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope."
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"I'll be like Bob Hope, touring when I'm 100."
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"I don't see you making a movie about Bob Arum."
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"Bob Dole is going to be appearing in a Pepsi commercial with Britney Spears. Yeah, apparently Dole says that if this doesn't cure his erectile dysfunction, nothing will."
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"but right now it's Bob Dylan Bob Dylan Bob Dylan all the way."
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"Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want (Bob Dylan's dad)"
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