Committed Quotes by David Bennun

There's no reason - not yet, anyway - to believe [Bob] Dylan himself endorses such an attitude; or that he would think of himself…

— David Bennun

How heartening it is to know that Ken Loach is still out there making committed, polemical cinema, so long as you don't have to…

— David Bennun

Without music, there is not the faintest chance [Bob Dylan] words would now be garlanded as they are.

— David Bennun

[Bob Dylan] is principally a recording artist, and if he weren't, it is unthinkable he would have had such an impact. He is to…

— David Bennun

The [Nobel] prize is for literature.[Bob] Dylan is a songwriter. Here is where the argument starts to get interesting, because here is where it…

— David Bennun

The general sentiment among the Yeas is, no accolade is too high for their man; and the Nobel being, literally, the gold standard among…

— David Bennun

First of all, there are those who simply don't care for [Bob] Dylan, or at least, don't think he's that great. Some of the…

— David Bennun

I have seen quite a few folk whom I know to be both fair minded and, as it happens,[Bob] Dylan fans, take up cudgels…

— David Bennun

Bob Dylan, Nobel laureate. A new fact so shocking that even the year's most notable deaths have not outdone it for the volume (in…

— David Bennun

The question now becomes about defining your terms. What is literature? Unless we allow it to encompass the oral tradition from which it grew,…

— David Bennun

The point is not that [Bob] Dylan doesn't need a Nobel to attest to how good he is (although he doesn't.) It's that pop…

— David Bennun

Look, dear! How adorable. When pop music tries its very hardest, it can be almost as good as Sven Hassel.

— David Bennun