"Back seat drivers don’t know the feel of the wheel but they sho’ know how to make a fuss" Bob Dylan/Bonnie Raitt, “Let’s Keep It Between Us,” 1982"
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"If you wanted to, it would be easy to find some crappy lyrics [of Bob Dylan] from the Eighties to undermine the Nobel Prize."
"Bob Dylan wrote in his elliptical memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, he was washed up in the 1980s, no longer a commercial success, and no longer putting out good work."
"Just in time for Bob Dylan to recoil from the attention, leave the city for Woodstock, and turn his back on fame."
"Ironically, this was Bob Dylan's period [1967-74] of greatest fame."
"I wanted to emulate Bob Flanagan, the high voice in the 'Four Freshmen.' I wanted to sing high like he did."
"I've always loved the fact that Bob's [Dylan] been able to sustain his mystery over 50 or 60 years."
"I got to work with Dustin Hoffman on a film called 'Billy Bathgate.' I got to work with Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn and Bob Zemeckis on 'Death Becomes Her.' There are still a few actors out there that I would like to work with."
"I would love to meet Bob Marley. I mean, he's passed, but that's somebody that I would've loved to meet."
"At 25, I was in the audience of my first professional speaker, Bob Bales. His presentation got my attention. I had never seen anyone having so much fun 'at work' and getting paid for it!"
"Bob Arum and Don King can do their thing but if I fought for those guys and they put the money up like they are supposed to then I don't have a problem."
"I hope the Spice Girls will come back, although it may be beyond even Bob Geldof to get that to happen."
"I won't comment on what Bob Dylan said, but I will comment on his receiving the Nobel Prize, which to me is like pinning a medal on Mount Everest for being the highest mountain."