“Can you imagine your second album — the difficult second album — it's about God? Everyone is tearing their hair out and Chris Blackwell says, "It's okay. There's Bob Marley and Marvin Gaye, Bob Dylan, it's a tradition. We can get through it.”
About the album October (album) (1981) in a speech accepting induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame http://www.u2station.com/news/archives/2005/03/transcript_u2s.php (17 March 2005)
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Irish rock musician, singer of U2 1960Related quotes
“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 am Boutros Boutros-Ghali; put down your guns and listen to Bob Marley.”
As quoted in "War" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5P9J1wCgNM (28 February 2003), Da Ali G Show http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0508528/?ref_=ttep_ep2
2000s
“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
Press conference in Los Angeles, California (17 December 1965), as seen and heard in No Direction Home.
The Rome Press Conference (23 July 2001)
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.