Around Quote by Benmont Tench

Folk music had long been political but [Bob] Dylan's poetry took it to a new level.

— Jay Michaelson

Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects.…

— Pete Townshend

Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country's poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so…

— John Burroughs

I think poets are supposed to be writing for television and film. I grew up in the day of early TV that was so…

— Eileen Myles

I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators. I am no where near as much of that as Bob Dylan. But…

— Ian Hunter

The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.

— Ed Sheeran

I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's…

— Diane Wakoski

Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" is still in print. They're debating right now over Mark Twain. He's still available. Winslow Homer can still be…

— Wynton Marsalis

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

I've grown up on Bob Dylan and all that, but there was a certain standard set up by people before 1955.

— Leon Russell

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

Not all writers are artists. But all of us like the idea of somebody in the year 2283 blowing the dust off one of…

— William Attwood