“The current tax code is harder to understand than Bob Dylan reading Finnegans Wake in a wind tunnel.”
Ranting Again
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American stand-up comedian, television host, and actor 1953Related quotes
“Finnegans Wake is not a book to read, but a book to decipher:”
"Quotes", The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 4: The Keys To Dreamland
Context: Finnegans Wake is not a book to read, but a book to decipher: as Joyce says, it's about a dreamer, but it's addressed to an ideal reader suffering from ideal insomnia.
“If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.”
Playboy Interview http://www.interferenza.com/bcs/interw/66-jan.htm (February 1966)
“I have three dads: my biological father, God and Bob Dylan.”
From the article A Mysterious Case of the White Stripes from Rolling Stone Magazine.
2010
Desert Island Discs Sue Lawley, BBC, London April 2 2004
On Art
Playboy Interview http://www.interferenza.com/bcs/interw/play78.htm (1978)
"Washington, D.C."
Ranting Again
Review of http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/dangerous-minds-1995 Dangerous Minds (11 August 1995)
Reviews, One-and-a-half star reviews
interview in Playboy magazine (February 1985 http://www.playboy.co.uk/article/16311/playboy-interview-steven-jobs) <!-- alternate link : http://gizmodo.com/5694765/29+year+old-steve-jobs-extols-californias-virtues-to-playboy-magazine -->
1980s
Context: Woz and I very much liked Bob Dylan's poetry, and we spent a lot of time thinking about a lot of that stuff. This was California. You could get LSD fresh made from Stanford. You could sleep on the beach at night with your girlfriend. California has a sense of experimentation and a sense of openness—openness to new possibilities.