quotes about Bob
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I go by records and Bob Paisley is the No 1 manager ever!
-- Alan Hansen -
Bob Taylor and I playing brothers. And I was a Mexican bandit. And he was the sheriff of the town. And we loved each other. We loved each other very much.
-- Anthony Quinn -
I tried to charm the pants off Bob Dylan, but everyone will be disappointed to learn that I was unsuccessful. I got close - a couple of fast feels in the front seat of a Cadillac.
-- Bette Midler -
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There is nothing in the world I wouldn't do for (Bob) Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn't do for me ... We spend our lives doing nothing for each other.
-- Bing Crosby -
If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clinton, I think you would probably leave them with Bob Dole.
-- Bob Dole -
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.
-- Bob Dylan -
If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.
-- Bob Dylan -
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Somebody had to be Bob Dylan. I guess I was best equipped to do the job.
-- Bob Dylan -
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)
-- Bob Dylan -
I went deep inside myself. I had time to explore my beliefs and because of that I'm stronger. Bob Marley (March 1981)
-- Bob Marley -
Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet.
-- Bob Marley -
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My love was Bob Dylan, but as I got older I realized a good ballad was a good ballad.
-- Bonnie Raitt -
I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan.
-- Bradley Whitford -
I wanted to emulate Bob Flanagan, the high voice in the 'Four Freshmen.' I wanted to sing high like he did.
-- Brian Wilson -
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.
-- Bruce Willis -
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In Hawaii, some of the biggest radio stations are reggae. The local bands are heavily influenced by Bob Marley.
-- Bruno Mars -
I'm from the Bob Wills and the Little Richard school of music. Bob Wills did what the hell he thought, Little Richard did what he thought, and those were my big influences.
-- Buck Owens -
You could live in Winnipeg a thousand years and not meet Ringo, Paul McCartney, or Bob Dylan.
-- Burton CummingsSource : "Canada Inside Out". Book by David Olive, 2012.
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I listen to Radio 4 and put the iPod on shuffle. I like the randomness of, say, the Stones, then something from Nina Simone, Nick Drake or Bob Dylan.
-- Catherine McCormackSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I can't stand Bob Dylan.
-- Charlotte ChurchSource : "Voice of experience" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2005.
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If our legal counsel, Bob Rutherford, works for Satan, Satan should buy Bob a better toupee.
-- Christina DoddSource : Christina Dodd (2007). “Scent of Darkness: Darkness Chosen”, p.102, Penguin
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I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.
-- Constance Baker Motley -
When the music hits, you feel no pain, to quote Bob Marley. But it’s true. It’s like all art and creation: You’re completely in the moment, and you just feel free.
-- Cory Monteith -
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I would never say that being Bob Marley's son has been a pressure. It has been a door opener.
-- Damian MarleySource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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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.
-- Daniel Smith -
I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I`ve known in my life. That`s just the truth.
-- David Geffen -
Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him.
-- Dick Van DykeSource : "Hope hailed by friends, family, fans". www.cnn.com. July 29, 2003.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
-- Don Van Vliet -
The only people I ever felt intimidated by in my whole life were Bob Gibson and my Daddy.
-- Dusty Baker -
I have often been told that I have many of the same mannerisms as Jack Benny and certainly Bob Cummings.
-- Dwayne Hickman -
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Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me musically.
-- Ed Sheeran -
You look at Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Bob Seger. All they ever wanted to do was go out there and entertain, and I'm the same way.
-- Eddie Money -
Well, a lot of people don't want to be quoted. But keep in mind that Bob Woodward did all of his Watergate reporting with anonymous sources, and we know how that turned out.
-- Edward KleinSource : "'Kennedy Curse' author on JFK Jr". "American Morning" with Soledad O'Brien, www.cnn.com. July 9, 2003.
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Of my four marriages, the one to Bob Levitt is the only one I don't regret
-- Ethel Merman -
I'll dance to anything: Bob Marley or rap.
-- Francesca Annis -
The thing that makes [Bob] Kennedy so good is that he doesn't have a fear of losing. He was willing to go to Europe and get hammered.
-- Frank Shorter -
Bob Dylan has a way with words that simply blows me away. When he forgets his lyrics he just makes up new ones on the spot, that is what I called talented!
-- Gavin RossdaleSource : FaceBook post by Gavin Rossdale from Mar 08, 2012
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Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys are simply the best band that ever was.
-- George Strait -
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.
-- Greil MarcusSource : "Talkin’ Bob Dylan". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. October 19, 2010.
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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.
-- Greil MarcusSource : Source: www.barnesandnoble.com
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Bob Hope, Red Skelton, and Eddie Cantor... help us keep our balance.
-- Hattie McDaniel -
I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.
-- Iris DeMentSource : "The poor are treated like enemies". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. April 18, 1998.
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Besides Bob Satterfield, the only ones who ever hurt me were my ex-wives.
-- Jake LaMottaSource : Los Angeles Times Interview, May 04, 1997.
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The most memorable moment was playing drums with Bob Dylan.
-- Jenna ElfmanSource : TV.com Interview, www.tv.com. June 14, 2006.
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And you don't want to just totally mess up the rhythm when you're playing with Bob Dylan.
-- Jenna Elfman -
No rest for the wicked, Bob, and that means that we can't slack off either, or they'll outwork us.
-- Jim Butcher -
So?" Bob said. "Hat up, go kill her. Problem solved." "Bob," I said. "You can't just go around killing people." "I know. That's why you should do it." "No, no. I can't go around killing people, either.
-- Jim Butcher -
I always wanted to be Gene Hackman and I always wanted to be, you know... I wanted to be one of these guys. I always wanted to be Bob Duvall.
-- John C. McGinley -
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The internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.
-- Jon Bon Jovi -
I don't know how you can go your whole life and not listen once to Bob Marley - what's the point?
-- Jon Fishman -
You're not there to spread any particular- if you're Bob Marley you're there to spread a message, but very few people can do that effectively without shoving opinions down someone's throat.
-- Jon Fishman -
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.
-- Jon Landau -
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Bob Dylan has always sealed his decisions with the unexplainable. His motives for withholding the release of the magnificent 'Basement Tapes' will be as forever obscure as Brian Wilson's reasons for the destruction of the tapes for 'Smile.'
-- Jon Landau -
The early Bob Dylan was compulsively drawn to the conflict between stability and the search for immortality.
-- Jon Landau -
Some of the freshest, most compelling, and most soulful music I have heard recently. Bob Reynolds is an amazing musician, with something very exciting and original to say.
-- Joshua Redman -
Joaquin Sabina is one of my favorites. He's like a legend. He's like our Bob Dylan, or our Bruce Springsteen. He's one of the most talented writers of our Latin music.
-- JuanesSource : "Juanes: A Superstar Slows Down, Shifts Gears". Interview with Mandalit Del Barco, www.kalw.org. August 16, 2012.
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And then it was working with Bob Hoskins, who I had never worked with before - except radio. It was like being given a wonderful meal - full of the things you love most.
-- Judi Dench -
I don't think I have any right to say I belong to that [Woody Guthrie/Bob Dylan tradition]. I think that's something that eventually maybe you get inducted into. I'm just experimenting.
-- Justin Townes Earle -
I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.
-- Kamala Harris -
Well, I met Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan in the space of 15 minutes. Frank Sinatra kissed me on the lips. He kissed me on the lips. And then he gave me a filterless cigarette. And then I met Bob Dylan. I came off all lightheaded and had to go sit on his dressing-room steps.
-- Kate Moss -
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I prefer watching movies on the sofa rather than sitting next to Bob Geldof at a premiere and wanting to kill yourself.
-- Keeley Hawes -
20 years ago, when Bob Bly starting teaching copywriting, the field was deeply shrouded in mystery. Now, thanks to Bob, learning copywriting, though still a tricky proposition, is much easier.
-- Ken McCarthy -
Gordon Lightfoot has created some of the most beautiful and lasting music of our time. He is Bob Dylan's favorite singer/songwriter - high praise from the best of us, applauded by the rest of us.
-- Kris Kristofferson -
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.
-- Larry Holmes -
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Courtney Love's name should be right next to Bob Dylan when they say best lyricist of all time.
-- Linda PerrySource : "Love Wants Her Throne Back On New Album". www.billboard.com. October 20, 2006.
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I think I'm the oldest new Bob Dylan around. I predate Bruce Springsteen, Steve Forbat and John Prine. I was probably the first of the new Bob Dylans.
-- Loudon Wainwright III -
Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing.
-- Madeleine Peyroux -
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I don't think you could pull one Bob Marley song that didn't have quotes from the Torah or the Old Testament.
-- Matisyahu -
I can't really say why everyone loves Bob Wills' music, but I have yet to meet a person who didn't like it.
-- Merle Haggard -
When you're in Jamaica, unless you're in a tourist spot, you don't hear Bob Marley; you mostly hear dance hall music.
-- Michael Franti -
And I don't expect anyone can bring about a revolution in the way that Bob Dylan did - and really didn't - in the 1960s.
-- Michael Stipe -
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I am truly honored because I know, obviously, what Bob meant to the Twins. I always told myself, when I put a uniform on for the first time in 1998, that I'm going to give everything I have.
-- Mike Redmond -
Every artist who drew Batman after creator Bob Kane was a better artist than Kane [...].
-- Mike W. Barr -
You know you're a stoner when your friends make you a Bob Marley cake.
-- Miley Cyrus -
Bob Altman got nothing from the TV series 'M*A*S*H,' and the royalties for the theme song went to his oldest son, Michael, who wrote it as a 15-year-old poet!
-- Mitchell ZuckoffSource : "Color of Money Book Club". Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. January 29, 2009.
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I bob and weave em, hit em wit that Mayweather JAB.
-- Nicki Minaj -
If it winds up earlier, you should have a movie picked out. This is assuming she isn’t sending you the ‘let’s go back to my place’ signals. In that case—†“Don’t go there, Bob. Let’s just not go there.
-- Nora Roberts -
Ronnie Moran, Joe Fagan, Bob Paisley, Roy Evans - they were hard on us young players. If you got a 'well done' off Ronnie Moran, you must have played well... They never used superlatives at Liverpool.
-- Paul Jewell -
Bob Dylan is out of the mentorship of Allen Ginsberg.
-- Peter Fonda -
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To me, Godard did to movies what Bob Dylan did to music: they both revolutionized their forms.
-- Quentin Tarantino -
I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm the Martin Luther King, or all the other greats that have come before us. And a lot of people are starting to realize that now.
-- R. Kelly -
Myrnin was silent for a beat, and then he said, "Bob would be very disappointed in you.
-- Rachel Caine -
I admire those old road dogs, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan. That's their life.
-- Robbie Robertson -
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Bob Dylan is as influential as any artist that there has been.
-- Robbie Robertson -
When I was playing with Bob Dylan in, like, 1966, I was, like, 20 years old.
-- Robbie Robertson -
I'm getting good offers, as good as ever sometimes. I just finished a thing with Billy Bob Thornton that was the most unique part I've ever played in my life, in the most unique project.
-- Robert Duvall -
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.
-- Robert Fitzgerald -
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I want to be the Bob DeNiro of the Jurassic.
-- Robert T. Bakker -
I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him.
-- Robyn Hitchcock -
I've been really, really blessed. I got to perform on stage with Bob Dylan. I've gotten to sing with Mick Jagger.
-- Sheryl Crow -
I combined theatre and films with live TV, such as The Royal Variety Show, performing sketches opposite Bob Hope and Maurice Chevalier.
-- Shirley Eaton -
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I have always said I was Bob Marley reincarnated,
-- Snoop Dogg -
If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they're comparing a criminal to an honest man.
-- Sonny Bono -
He's a wallflower." And Bob nodded his head. And the whole room nodded their head. And i started to feel nervous in the Bob way, but Patrick didn't let me get too nervous. He sat down next to me. "You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.
-- Stephen Chbosky -
Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me.
-- Steve Buscemi -