Joan Baez quotes from A Complete Unknown (2024)
Played by Monica Barbaro
View Quote
You know, you're kind of an asshole, Bob.
Scenes with Joan Baez
View Quote
Joan Baez: Who taught you to play?
Bob Dylan: I taught myself, really. Picked up a few licks at the carnival.
Joan Baez: [in disbelief] At the carnival?
Bob Dylan: Oh yeah, there was singing cowboys that come through teach me all sorts of funny chords. They'd pass through doin' shows in Kansas or Dakotas. These chords I learned from a cowboy named Wigglefoot.
Joan Baez: You were in a carnival? [pause] You are so completely full of shit.
Bob Dylan: I taught myself, really. Picked up a few licks at the carnival.
Joan Baez: [in disbelief] At the carnival?
Bob Dylan: Oh yeah, there was singing cowboys that come through teach me all sorts of funny chords. They'd pass through doin' shows in Kansas or Dakotas. These chords I learned from a cowboy named Wigglefoot.
Joan Baez: You were in a carnival? [pause] You are so completely full of shit.
View Quote
Joan Baez: [as Bob joins her on stage at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival] Pick something appropriate.
Bob Dylan: [Sarcastically] Appropriate?
Joan Baez: Just **** off and sing.
Bob Dylan: [Sarcastically] Appropriate?
Joan Baez: Just **** off and sing.
View Quote
Joan Baez: Well you finally got it.
Bob Dylan: Got what?
Joan Baez: Freedom from us and all our shit. Isn't that what you wanted?
[Bob doesn't answer and rides away]
Bob Dylan: Got what?
Joan Baez: Freedom from us and all our shit. Isn't that what you wanted?
[Bob doesn't answer and rides away]
Other characters in A Complete Unknown (2024): Bob Dylan · Pete Seeger