Dylan Quotes · Page 5

Well, I love Bob Dylan, let's make that clear. He's one of my musical heroes.

— Tim Heidecker

Forever Young, by Dylan, is one of my favorite songs.

— Levon Helm

but right now it's Bob Dylan Bob Dylan Bob Dylan all the way.

— Charles Bukowski

“True pain teaches us to grow. You aren't finished yet. Dylan needs you.”

— Rebecca Salas

His [Bob Dylan] humour was dry and splendid.

— Bob Dylan

“It's cruel what I love most about Dylan is the very reason why I can't have her.”

— Katie Kacvinsky

I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan.

— Bradley Whitford

[Bob] Dylan's broken-heart songs are so much better. Like "Simple Twist of Fate".

— Bob Dylan

When I was in college, being a magician was not the classiest thing to be. It was like being a folk singer…

— Doug Henning

The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we…

— John Thorn

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

— David Bennun

I've only written 30 songs or something. Dylan's written over 500 songs. There's no comparison. He's the Shakespeare of rock 'n' roll…

— Sixto Rodriguez

“Dylan: "I'd stolen chocolate from there, back when I was into that kind of thing. Stealing, not chocolate... whatever.”

— Susan Bischoff

Religion is commodified; the educational system is a sham; and yet,[Bob] Dylan wonders, everyone has to stand naked sometime.

— Jay Michaelson

Saying directors don't write because they don't type is very wrong, it's like saying Dylan doesn't write music because he doesn't write…

— William Monahan

“Song-writing's just kinda like catching fish--you sit there and pull them out as they go by--though I think Bob Dylan's up stream…

— Arlo Guthrie

I hate categories. Hank Williams is a great artist, period. Bob Dylan is a great artist, so is Marty Robbins. They just…

— George Thorogood

Bob Dylan wasn't a big star early on; it was the release of his Greatest Hits album in 1967, and the mainstream…

— Bob Dylan

Some people say Dylan Thomas mischievous, he's a child, and other people say he's quite demonic. I don't think we should dictate…

— Keira Knightley

I was like, "Who the hell is Bob Dylan?" I was going to learn one song to appease my mom and alphabetically…

— Ezra Furman

Usually when I write lyrics I try to read a lot and listen to a lot of other stuff. Some of my…

— Andrew VanWyngarden

I heard Tom Waits in this kinky shop on Belmont Street in Chicago. Considering the way I was raised, they were such…

— Willis Earl Beal

I'm in a position I never imagined I'd be in as a musician. Bob Dylan built an audience through recording and live…

— Ben Sollee

I love Dylan. I only met him once, about three years ago, back at the Kettle of Fish on MacDougal Street. That…

— Jimi Hendrix

Music didn't really occur to me. Michael Jordan and Batman were my favorite two entities then. Michael Jackson was there, but I…

— Willis Earl Beal

I’m too young and ridiculous a person to speak for my generation, but I’d be happy to talk about my own experiences…

— Simon Rich

I moved to leave, and Dylan actually grabbed my shoulders. I was so surprised that i forgot to karate-chop his elbows and…

— James Patterson

I realized a lot of my friends were going to nightclubs and listening to house music. I was hanging out with them…

— Hans-Peter Lindstrøm

“Go buy milk,' Robert said at last. Dylan moved for Buggy's door. But if ou come around here with that old lady's…

— Jonathan Lethem

Bob Dylan was really mad with my wife. I had asked by Rolling Stone - the only assignment I ever had for…

— Nat Hentoff

Jake La Botz is a creator of dark poetry and haunting song, the kind of music that gets in your bones and…

— Jerry Stahl

You can help each other, Max, said the unwelcome voice. You're perfect complements to each other. "Shut up!" I hissed under my…

— James Patterson

But can a song stop a war? If Bob Marley and Bob Dylan couldn't do it, it can't be done.

— Henry Rollins

they say every man needs protection, they say every man must fall. yet I swear I see my reflection,some place high above…

— Bob Dylan

I named my sons Brandon and Dylan after the Beverly Hills 90210 characters. Both of them were born in my bathroom. I…

— Pamela Anderson

"Subterranean Homesick Blues" [of Bob Dylan] captures, in word-salad format, life in an encroaching police state.

— Bob Dylan

I can't write story-songs, like I couldn't write a Bob Dylan or Tom Waits song. I can only write whatever weird phrases…

— Jay Watson

Hear this Robert Zimmerman, I wrote a song for you, about a strange young man called Dylan with a voice like sand…

— David Bowie

Why is this generation looking to aging icons like John Lennon and Bob Dylan for inspiration? Why not raising up their own…

— Tucker Carlson

[Bob] Dylan crashed his motorcycle in 1967, and almost died. A few years ago, he referred to the experience as a "transfiguration."

— Bob Dylan