[Telluride's programming often goes down to the wire, and additional titles could materialize. There are rumors of late-breaking sneak screenings that could include Martin Scorsese 's 3-1/2-hour Bob Dylan documentary] No Direction Home, ... Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads.
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Related I timed my previous wife's pregnancy to the moment to have my son born on Bob Dylan's 50th b... CHARLIE TROTTER I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan. BRADLEY WHITFORD If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself. BOB DYLAN Sure, Bob Dylan had some good songs. But he could have been a doctor. R.S. GOMPERTZ Now here's Bob Dylan, BOB ZIMMERMAN Now here's Bob Dylan , BOB ZIMMERMAN You could live in Winnipeg a thousand years and not meet Ringo, Paul McCartney, or Bob Dylan. BURTON CUMMINGS I can't stand Bob Dylan. CHARLOTTE CHURCH I'm a huge Springsteen fan, and yet if either he or Bob Dylan had to be erased from the world... ELIZABETH WURTZEL I can't stand Bob Dylan CHARLOTTE CHURCH Bob Dylan is the Jew of all time. GUY OSEARY The timing had to be just right to bring a name like Bob Dylan on the network. You have to have a cr... ERIC LOGAN I loved working with Bob Dylan. BENMONT TENCH I'll never be Bob Dylan. He's the master. NEIL YOUNG Bob Dylan's not a hype and a haircut: he's the real thing. BENMONT TENCH We didn't have the phrase 'style icon' when I was young, but I have to say, I really cop... PATTI SMITH Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. They're my biggest heroes. I love everything about Leonard Cohen: h... AURORA I was born here and I'll die here against my will. GORDON MARINO einige gitarren, ein klavier, mikrophone von der decke, kleine schaumstoffpyramiden an den wänden. ... DAVID RAMIRER All I can do is be me, whatever that is. Bob Dylan ALM HLGH Take care of all of your memories. You cannot relive them. Bob Dylan ALM HLGH The sun's not yellow, its chicken! BOB DYLAN It's like a kid standing at the window watching the rain. HARUKI MURAKAMI People are crazy and times are strange ... I used to care but things have changed BOB DYLAN I'm not that kind of Bob Dylan, tortured creative. BEN BARNES One month I'll be completely obsessed with Bob Dylan and the next Arcade Fire. I like early Elto... TOM ODELL I am a child of the '70s, so I love classic rock - Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, ... RACHEL ZOE I admire those old road dogs, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan. That's their life. ROBBIE ROBERTSON I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan's look good. BILL WALTON The most memorable moment was playing drums with Bob Dylan. JENNA ELFMAN I'm a catalogue artist: I compete with Bob Dylan. COURTNEY LOVE My heroes, I couldn't imagine them practicing. Like Bob Dylan, you know? Bob Dylan's a very,... LAURENT BRANCOWITZ Music was so important to the culture when I was growing up in the Sixties and Seventies. We just ex... JOHN MELLENCAMP I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to... HENRY ROLLINS In 1952, Muddy cut the song 'Rollin' Stone.' It was a nationwide success, and the song e... TIM CAHILL Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing. MADELEINE PEYROUX It was Jon’s birthday. And after you know somebody for 25 years it’s hard to get’em something ... RICHIE SAMBORA I think it's a metal version of Phil Ochs and Bob Dylan ... Metal Folk protest? NEIL YOUNG It's generally popular with the public to think of Bob Dylan as the '60s folk hero, HOWARD SOUNES We knew that Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan did it last summer with great success, RICK ALLEN You can never be wise and be in love at the same time. BOB DYLAN All I can be is me- whoever that is. BOB DYLAN I had no time for romance. I turned away from the window, from the wintry sun, crossed through the r... BOB DYLAN But, like Shakespeare, I too am often occupied with the pursuit of my creative endeavors and dealing... BOB DYLAN He stilled my room, for sure. SUZE ROTOLO Everybody is waiting for cooler weather--and I am just waiting for you--. (Bob Dylan in a letter) SUZE ROTOLO And as far as that goes, when he first started with it he was considering Bob Dylan for Clyde before... ROBERT TOWNE My parents were inspired by Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas when naming me. They specifically saved this ... DYLAN LAUREN Bob Dylan at 60 is the same as Bob Dylan at 16. He's a loner, ... He's secretive. He's a man who's v... HOWARD SOUNES I didn't sound anything like Capote at the screen test. It was more like Bob Dylan. In his early... TOBY JONES My love was Bob Dylan, but as I got older I realized a good ballad was a good ballad. BONNIE RAITT Somebody had to be Bob Dylan. I guess I was best equipped to do the job. BOB DYLAN As a songwriter, oddly enough, my influences were people like Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground, and... RIC OCASEK Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs. CAPTAIN BEEFHEART I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and other... IRIS DEMENT To us, there was Bob Dylan, and there was dad. As for what he meant to other people, that was never ... JAKOB DYLAN I love Bob Dylan. 'Blood on the Tracks' is one of my top five records. DARIUS RUCKER My favorite Bob Dylan record is the very first one where he sings one Bob Dylan song and the rest of... CHRIS CORNELL Study Bob Dylan lyrics like a theologian studies the Bible, listen to Johnny Cash like a man receivi... JEFF ROMANOVITCH When I was in college, being a magician was not the classiest thing to be. It was like being a folk ... DOUG HENNING People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain B... P. J. HARVEY Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me mus... ED SHEERAN Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on m... KURT COBAIN A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does wha... BOB DYLAN A poem is a naked person....Some people say that I am a poet. BOB DYLAN Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you're not busy being born, you're busy dying. WALTER ISAACSON Dylan's voice was awful, an aged quaver that sounded nothing like the deep-throated or silky R&B... TA-NEHISI COATES Once upon a time You dressed so fine BOB DYLAN The Duke [John Wayne] was a massive figure. He looked like a heavy piece of hauled lumber, and it di... BOB DYLAN Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The cha... BOB DYLAN One of the autobiographies I really liked was Bob Dylan's. It was interesting because he didn... DANIEL BRYAN I love Bob Dylan. Who doesn't? He tapped into some kind of vein and it keeps on keeping on. Ther... DAVID LYNCH Well, I met Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan in the space of 15 minutes. Frank Sinatra kissed me on the l... KATE MOSS Well people used to tease me and say, 'Oh, you're a Christian Bob Dylan'. And then when Dylan became... LARRY NORMAN We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in ha... JON BON JOVI When Johnny Cash died, ... I picked up my guitar and got the idea that Bob Dylan was the last man st... JON BON JOVI My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, an... OSCAR ISAAC I listen to Radio 4 and put the iPod on shuffle. I like the randomness of, say, the Stones, then som... CATHERINE MCCORMACK Everybody who I ever cared about has told me that they like my music: Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Al ... DARYL HALL But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of ... BILL WALTON Growing up, I listened to a lot of American singer/songwriters, so a lot of Tom Waits, Paul Simon - ... GEORGE EZRA Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's co... STEVE EARLE The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell ... ED SHEERAN We don't need another Woody. Even Bob Dylan knew he couldn't be Woody Guthrie... I like Wood... BUZZ OSBORNE Once I'd heard 'Modern Times' by Bob Dylan, it really changed the way I wanted to make r... ELTON JOHN I think people are 'just creative,' and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan... RONNIE WOOD When I was around 12, my heroes were Cindy Sherman and Bob Dylan and Samuel Westing from the kids... TAVI GEVINSON After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that ni... ROBYN HITCHCOCK Bob Dylan and John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen, these are soul guys. Bruce Springsteen might not si... ROBIN THICKE We have young kids who need to produce in key spots. Bob is a good No. 2 guy and Marcus has a real s... DAVE BATES I think that any excuse that Americans find to listen to Bob Dylan, especially given what they're li... DAVE MARSH I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about ... BOB DYLAN If I was building any new kind of life to live, it really didn't seem that way. It's not as if I had... BOB DYLAN What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not threatening - all bunk. No guar... BOB DYLAN It seemed I'd always been chasing after something, anything that moved -a car, a bird, a blowing lea... BOB DYLAN My big fear was that my guitar would go out of tune. BOB DYLAN I really was never any more than what I was -a folk musician who gazed into the gray mist with tear-... BOB DYLAN ..my father was the best man in the world and probably worth a hundred of me, but he didn't understa... BOB DYLAN My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also... KAZUO ISHIGURO I'm trying to get as far way from myself as I can.........from Things Have Changed by Bob Dylan (not... BOB DYLAN
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