In the new Madonna issue of Vanity Fair, Duff McDonald did an excellent job putting together a two page graphic spread on Bob Dylan - you know, the guy who won one-sixth as many Pulitzer Prizes on Monday as the Washington Post. The imagery in the feature, entitled Inside Dylan's Brain - is based on Milton Glaser's famous Dylan poster, and the words are a combination of quotes and data drawn from the Bard's XM Radio show. You can't read them in the reproduction above, but here's a sampling of Bob bon mots:
"Willie Nelson’s tour bus runs on cooking oil….I’ve toured with Willie…sometimes late at night you can see us, I’m filling up my tank at the gas station and he’s filling his up at Denny’s.”
“A lot of people who play one kind won’t play with people who play another kind, but me personally, I never understood any kind of border patrol when it comes to music.”
“I don’t trust a man who doesn’t tear up a little watching Old Yeller.”
“America is certainly the great melting pot. Where else could someone like Slim Gaillard sing a tribute to matzoh balls and gefilte fish? It’s the kind of thing that makes me proud to be an American. Sing it, Slim.”
“I gave a bald-headed friend a comb. You know what he said? ‘I’ll never part with it.’”
“One of the greatest songwriters who ever lived was Hank Williams, of course. Hank could be headstrong and willful, a backslider and a reprobate, no stranger to bad deeds. However, underneath all of that, he was compassionate and moralistic.”
“I leave you with the words of Benjamin Franklin. ‘He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.’ Thank you, Ben. Peace out.”
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