Bob Quote by Arlo Guthrie

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

— Leonard Cohen

I was comparatively late in understanding Bob Dylan's overwhelming importance as a songwriter. Everybody who does my job exists in the shadow of Bob…

— Steve Earle

I think everyone mentions Bob Dylan, but he's someone I just admire so much as a songwriter. I think people write songs, and then…

— Tom Odell

Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won't bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say…

— Anonymous

Songs are like fish. You just gotta have your line in the water. And it's a bad idea to fish downstream from Bob Dylan.

— Arlo Guthrie

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

— Greil Marcus

I think Bob Dylan showed us that songs can rise to the level of literature, and he proved it over and over again. That's…

— Mary Gauthier

Bob has never written a bad song. Bob Dylan is a genius.

— Bob Dylan

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

— Steve Earle

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 and popular music.

— Sixto Rodriguez

If Woody Guthrie set the bar for American songwriters, Bob Dylan jumped right over it. No one I know will ever come close to…

— John Mellencamp

I was one of those guys, you know, playing and singing, and there was no reason for me to write a song, because there…

— John Mellencamp