Columbia Quotes by Al Kooper

Every now and then we could steal somebody else's stuff.

— Al Kooper

If you'd done a good job you'd just step back and let all these different chemistries interact and let it go.

— Al Kooper

Producing Bob Dylan was pretty much a spectator sport.

— Al Kooper

The "Highway 61" album [of Bob Dylan] was produced by Bob Johnston if I'm not incorrect. And Bob Johnston was an entirely different producer…

— Al Kooper

I liked being challenged by music. It's good for me.

— Al Kooper

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

— Al Kooper

The place that I worked I used to joke about it. There was a, every morning at 10:30 I'd come into work and I'd…

— Al Kooper

Still being ambitious to want to play on the record, I was a mediocre keyboard player. And uh, I seized the opportunity and played…

— Al Kooper

My influences were mostly gospel. So I was playing my twisted Jewish equivalent of gospel music over his twisted equivalent of rock and roll…

— Al Kooper

Only through sheer ambition did I end up playing on [Bob Dylan sessions] and the fact that I could do that is a testament…

— Al Kooper

Musically Bob [Dylan] is a primitive. He's not a Gershwin, or somebody that uses eloquent music terms.

— Al Kooper

Mike Bloomfield sat down and started playing, and I went, whoa! Because I had never heard any white person play like that before. And…

— Al Kooper