Dylan Quotes · Page 7

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

— David Bowie

The people that impress me are Bob Dylan. The ones who keep working, year in and year out, and keep coming up…

— Ben Mendelsohn

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

— Al Kooper

“Watching Nicholson talking Towne was like listening to Bob Dylan playing with the Band.”

— Peter Biskind

It seems like if they'd given Bob Dylan a pen and paper in the cradle that he would've come up with a…

— Chris Thile

Before Dylan, before rock became art, it was a wonderful fusion of pop structure and personal statements.

— Steven Van Zandt

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

I'm Dylan. I'm so cool. I want to date myself, but I don't know how! You want to date me instead? You're…

— Rick Riordan

I've listened to Dylan my entire life. My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat…

— Oscar Isaac

It's like there's the rest of the world, and then there's America. Part of the reason I would really love continue to…

— Tom Odell

After becoming famous once again - a 1976 song, "Hurricane," even marked a return to protest songwriting - [Bob] Dylan got addicted…

— Bob Dylan

Most of the songs came from Europe and Africa and now they were coming back to us. Many of [Bob] Dylan's best…

— John Lennon

When I approached one of his secretaries for an interview, I was told that Bob [Dylan] didn't want to see me anymore…

— Nat Hentoff

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 - along with my singing and dancing, I was very happy to be born in the hometown of Dylan Thomas.…

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

I am a critic who is pulled toward history. But Bob Dylan himself is a great historian. He is an historian who…

— Greil Marcus

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 started with the chorus of that song, kind of like a fun bouncy thing to play, and then one of the…

— Jorma Kaukonen

[Peter] Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" was my first go-to song in terms of getting into the zone and getting ready and then I…

— Bill Walton

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

— David Bennun

We're often afraid to do anything unless we know we can do it extremely well. But we get to Carnegie Hall by…

— Marianne Williamson

Along with a lot of other things, becoming a Bob Dylan fan made me a writer. I was never interested in figuring…

— Greil Marcus

But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging. ... Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the…

— Warren Zevon

“The things that bring couples together will always terrify me more than the things that tear us apart. They will always be…

— Rob Sheffield

Most people think that I heard Bob Dylan first and got a cap and harmonica. Really, it was Woody Guthrie. He was…

— Donovan

Bob Dylan was uncomfortable being known as just a protest singer. He wanted to go back into himself and do what he…

— Nat Hentoff

I didn't sound anything like Capote at the screen test. It was more like Bob Dylan. In his early years. With the…

— Toby Jones

Back seat drivers don’t know the feel of the wheel but they sho’ know how to make a fuss" Bob Dylan/Bonnie Raitt,…

— Bob Dylan

I didn't come after Elvis and Dylan, I've been around always. But if I see or meet a great artist, I love…

— John Lennon

I asked Bob Dylan to paint the album cover for 'Music from Big Pink.' He said, 'Yeah, let me see what I…

— Robbie Robertson

Everybody who I ever cared about has told me that they like my music: Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Al Green, The Spinners,…

— Daryl Hall

“I'm trying to get as far way from myself as I can….from Things Have Changed by Bob Dylan (not a book but…

— Bob Dylan

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

— Jake Bugg

It's quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star. I'd rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says,…

— Bono

When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.

— Bob Geldof

Bob Dylan has a way with words that simply blows me away. When he forgets his lyrics he just makes up new…

— Gavin Rossdale

When I heard his first songs, Dylan was answering certain questions that I had all my life been asking myself.

— Nana Mouskouri

[Bob Dylan] is a preacher but also a sinner; a poet but also a pitchman; authentic all-American but also invented persona.

— Jay Michaelson

“I would never hit Dylan. I would never hurt her. But I just beat her up with words.”

— Katie Kacvinsky

Whatever that ["transfiguration" by Bob Dylan] means, it's true that the poetic brilliance of the early career would never really reappear.

— Bob Dylan