Dylan Quotes · Page 5

I think that any songwriter - and I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us - you don't…

— Leonard Cohen

Bob Dylan's not a hype and a haircut: he's the real thing.

— Benmont Tench

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

— Pamela Anderson

Celebrated in the Bob Dylan ballad 'Joey,' Crazy Joe Gallo was a charismatic beatnik gangster whose forays into Greenwich Village in the…

— Tom Folsom

There's no concession to the fact that Dylan might be a more sophisticated singer than Whitney Houston, that he's probably the most…

— Leonard Cohen

Bob Dylan's first couple of records in the 60's weren't considered cover records, but he only wrote one or two original songs…

— John Mellencamp

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

— Tucker Carlson

I think we need to sort of broaden our definition of poetry, which maybe it's a good thing that they just gave…

— Jim Jarmusch

My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the…

— John Hughes

I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan's look good.

— Bill Walton

I'm definitely not a laptop/midi/abelton guy. But there is a lot of music I like. I really like Bach organ music. I…

— Gordon Raphael

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

— David Bennun

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

— Jake Bugg

Bob Dylan started out as a folk rip- off but he quickly ran with complex influences and it ended up to be…

— Daniel Smith

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

— Ezra Furman

I suspect many readers might associate [Bob Dylan] with one of the shortest phases of his career, the time from 1963 to…

— Jay Michaelson

While [Bob] Dylan's folk fans thought he was selling out [in 1965-67], actually Dylan was lodging a stronger, deeper critique of American…

— Jay Michaelson

In 1952, Muddy cut the song 'Rollin' Stone.' It was a nationwide success, and the song echoes down through rock n' roll…

— Tim Cahill

I'll marry Bob Dylan, I'll f - k Dillon Francis, and I'll kill Matt Dillon , because I don't know him.

— David Macklovitch

They were playing old Bob Dylan, more than perfect for narrow Village streets close to Christmas and the snow whirling down in…

— Donna Tartt

Bob Dylan and John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen, these are soul guys. Bruce Springsteen might not sing like Otis Redding, but he…

— Robin Thicke

From the moment [Bob] Dylan arrived as a songwriter, he was [so] much better than everybody else around.

— Steve Earle

I'm a huge Springsteen fan, and yet if either he or Bob Dylan had to be erased from the world's hard drive,…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

There is nothing conceptually better than rock 'n' roll. No group, be it Beatles, Dylan or Stones, have ever improved on Whole…

— John Lennon

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

— Bob Dylan