Dylan Quotes · Page 2

I'm always looking for overlooked post-Dylan singer-songwriter records from the '70s.

— Noah Baumbach

One of the songs that stayed in my head that I really considered a lot was an old folk song called 'John…

— Quentin Tarantino

I would say, from an all-around point of view, Bruce Springsteen is one of the two great poet lords of America, Bob…

— Clive Davis

The society that produced The Who, The Stones, Dylan, Paul McCartney and later on people, like myself, is over. The materialistic society…

— Don McLean

You don't have to be the best guitar player, or have the best voice, or even be the best looking person -…

— Ryan Ross

In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob…

— Iggy Pop

Just in time for Bob Dylan to recoil from the attention, leave the city for Woodstock, and turn his back on fame.

— Bob Dylan

I really believe that Bob Dylan and others have speeded up the changes. Pacifism has found a voice at last.

— David Bowie

I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and…

— Alan Lomax

Bob Dylan is as influential as any artist that there has been.

— Robbie Robertson

Bob Dylan is great. I've been compared to him a lot. I think when people see a person on stage with a…

— Jake Bugg

I'm doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It's a wonderful script.

— Dougray Scott

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

— Al Kooper

Now that we were alone,i was self-conscious and cranky again.Why had i wanted to stay?if i had been programmed to want to…

— James Patterson

Bob Dylan was the source of pop music's unpredictability in the Sixties. Never as big a record-seller as commonly imagined, his importance…

— Jon Landau

[Bob Dylan] builds his lyrics, of course, from personal experience, but it's also a literary work. He draws heavily on his knowledge…

— Sjon

The force that drives the green fuse, as Dylan Thomas said, cannot be understood. So self-discovery is to accept your daily meditation,…

— Frederick Lenz

Somehow you can tell the difference when a song is written just to get on the radio and when what someone does…

— Lyle Lovett

I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could…

— Henry Rollins

My love was Bob Dylan, but as I got older I realized a good ballad was a good ballad.

— Bonnie Raitt

When I was 12 years old, or however old I was when Bringing It All Back Home came out, I'd just skip…

— Rodney Crowell

Dylan Nice's Other Kinds is the most extraordinary short-story-col lection debut I have read in years. It is a book to be…

— Gary Lutz

When I was very, very young, I decided that I was gonna catalogue my times because that's what other people who I…

— Bruce Springsteen

Bob Dylan continues to release odd and unsettling records, and to do odd and unsettling things on stage. So the term 'still'…

— Greil Marcus

I don't care if it's a Cole Porter song, or George Gershwin, or Lennon/McCartney, or Elton John, or you know, whoever, Bob…

— John Oates