Dylan Quote by Al Kooper Download Open image “...You couldn't help being influenced by Dylan.” — Al Kooper ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dylan Helping
“Dylan never met anyone who wasn't about to change immediately into someone else. His was a special talent for encountering persons about to shed… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I started being me about the songs, not writing objectively, but subjectively. I think it was Dylan who helped me realize that - not… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“This was the trouble with Dylan. Friendly Dylan would lull you into a false sense of complacency, then crazy-hot Dylan would club you over… — Piper Lawson Copy Share Image
I would be quite happy never to play any of my better-known songs again. But unless you're Dylan, you can't afford to completely disregard… — Robyn Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Dylan is so brilliant. To me, he makes William Shakespeare look like Billy Joel. — George Harrison Copy Share Image
Dylan used to sound like a lung cancer victim singing Woody Guthrie. Now he sounds like a Rolling Stone singing Immanuel Kant. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you say Dylan, he thinks you're talking about Dylan Thomas, whoever he was. — Simon And Garfunkel Copy Share Image
Somebody had to be Bob Dylan. I guess I was best equipped to do the job. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
If you'd done a good job you'd just step back and let all these different chemistries interact and let it go. — Al Kooper Copy Share Image
The "Highway 61" album [of Bob Dylan] was produced by Bob Johnston if I'm not incorrect. And Bob Johnston was an entirely different producer… — Al Kooper Copy Share Image
I think it was Columbia politics, Columbia Records politics that, that, Tom Wilson left [Bob Dylan] after "Like A Rolling Stone". — Al Kooper Copy Share Image
The place that I worked I used to joke about it. There was a, every morning at 10:30 I'd come into work and I'd… — Al Kooper Copy Share Image
Still being ambitious to want to play on the record, I was a mediocre keyboard player. And uh, I seized the opportunity and played… — Al Kooper Copy Share Image
My influences were mostly gospel. So I was playing my twisted Jewish equivalent of gospel music over his twisted equivalent of rock and roll… — Al Kooper Copy Share Image
Only through sheer ambition did I end up playing on [Bob Dylan sessions] and the fact that I could do that is a testament… — Al Kooper Copy Share Image
Musically Bob [Dylan] is a primitive. He's not a Gershwin, or somebody that uses eloquent music terms. — Al Kooper Copy Share Image
Mike Bloomfield sat down and started playing, and I went, whoa! Because I had never heard any white person play like that before. And… — Al Kooper Copy Share Image
Except in these latter-day songs, [Bob] Dylan is a grizzled old prophet who's already been to hell and back. — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
I like men who are very cool but who are also so brilliant that they are almost insane. Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, Bob Dylan,… — Jolene Blalock Copy Share Image
I was very engaged by the folk music movement.Bob Dylan; Joan Baez; Peter, Paul and Mary. And then I sort of discovered world music,… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The most recent incarnation of [Bob] Dylan has been the traveling journeyman/ charlatan who sings roots music, snarls dark lyrics that make "All Along… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
Everybody who I ever cared about has told me that they like my music: Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Al Green, The Spinners, Smokey Robinson.… — Daryl Hall Copy Share Image
Listen, the story of the United States is this: One kid, without anything, walks out of his house, down the road, with nothing but… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
I first met (Bob Dylan) in '65. We've had a friendship for a long time. He decided to play on a record I was… — Doug Sahm Copy Share Image
Probably the high-watermark of [Bob] Dylan's career came after he plugged in his guitar ("Judas!" one fan shouted during a concert) and exploded American… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
Most of the artists were trying to make a living, trying to get laid, trying to figure out who they were. They weren't trying… — David Geffen Copy Share Image
I've been really, really blessed. I got to perform on stage with Bob Dylan. I've gotten to sing with Mick Jagger. — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
Courtney Love's name should be right next to Bob Dylan when they say best lyricist of all time. — Linda Perry Copy Share Image
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