Bob Quotes

I don't mind personal insults, but when you insult the jokes that I tell you're insulting Fred Allen, Bob Hope, Burns and Allen, Trevor McGee and Molly Picon.

Bob Hope, Red Skelton, and Eddie Cantor... help us keep our balance.

Bob Kelly was so dumb, they shoulda written his name on the Stanley Cup in crayon.

Hitler's mind was a deep-running river. You could never tell when something it had absorbed would bob to the surface again.

The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.

But I don't want to lose touch with things like eating in Bob's Big Boy.

Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams. All of them are different styles, but those are the songs that make the times. They're the songs that last through time.

[Bob Ferguson] won that huge ruling against the first version of the Muslim ban that resulted in it being stopped dead in the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.

I am a child of the '70s, so I love classic rock - Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Van Morrison, and I also love Coldplay.

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.

This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.

They have a kind of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby thing going on.

From the moment [Bob] Dylan arrived as a songwriter, he was [so] much better than everybody else around.

I've been to two concerts in the last 10 years.Bob Seger and the Eagles.

Only through sheer ambition did I end up playing on [Bob Dylan sessions] and the fact that I could do that is a testament to how disorganized it really was.

(Bob) Feller isn't quite as fast as I was.

Songwriting is like fishing in a stream; you put in your line and hope to catch something. And I don't think anyone downstream from Bob Dylan ever caught anything.

If I was to meet Lou Reed or Bob Dylan, I would be totally helpless. Writers and musicians make me feel completely starstruck.

Bob Brannum was my body guard on the court. He was 6'-6 and built like a bulldog.

I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan.

I remember when I was 14, I went to race in Hungary, and I went to a concert, and they were playing Bob Marley songs, and I thought, "Wow, this guy is so special." It's Marley every time.

If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

[Bob Dylan] was rarely tender and seldom reached out to anticipate another's needs.

My love was Bob Dylan, but as I got older I realized a good ballad was a good ballad.

There were only a few seats left in coach and Bob found himself seated next to a young female fan. 'I can't believe I'm sitting next to Bob Dylan!' she screamed.'Pinch yourself,' said Bob."

Bob Dylan was again an entirely new person - this time old, craggy, cynical, and world-weary, as in "Not Dark Yet".

I combined theatre and films with live TV, such as The Royal Variety Show, performing sketches opposite Bob Hope and Maurice Chevalier.

Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated.

I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.

We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.

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.

If you going to live by a certain code - as Bob Dylan said, you gotta serve somebody.

I think it was Columbia politics, Columbia Records politics that, that, Tom Wilson left [Bob Dylan] after "Like A Rolling Stone".

Producing Bob Dylan was pretty much a spectator sport.

I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.

So I started shoveling Bob's driveway, which is a strange thing to do at a New Years Eve Party

And you don't want to just totally mess up the rhythm when you're playing with Bob Dylan.

The most memorable moment was playing drums with Bob Dylan.

I think that any songwriter - and I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us - you don't write the songs anyhow.

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.

Bob Dylan's one of the greatest blues singers of the western world; ancient art, on-the-spot improvisation, mind quickness, endless variation, classical formulae, prophetic vision, mighty wind-horse.

I loved working with Bob Dylan.

I was very engaged by the folk music movement.Bob Dylan; Joan Baez; Peter, Paul and Mary. And then I sort of discovered world music, and fell in love with ethnic music of all sorts.

Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it.

After becoming famous once again - a 1976 song, "Hurricane," even marked a return to protest songwriting - [Bob] Dylan got addicted to drugs, found Jesus, left Jesus, and put out a lot of swill.

Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so I could have a career if I wanted.

Bob Seger was a huge inspiration.

I supported Bob Schaffer's three races for Congress. But we all had concerns about whether he could win statewide. Then my wife suggested that I get it.

Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes.

I can't stand Bob Dylan.