America Quote by Bob Dylan

First of all, there are those who simply don't care for [Bob] Dylan, or at least, don't think he's that great. Some of the…

— David Bennun

[Bob] Dylan is a contemporary Don Quixote, at once besotted by the promise of America and yet also undermining it.

— Jay Michaelson

Ask people who know him for a description of Bob Dylan outside the prerogatives of fame and the obligations of art, and they have…

— Tom Junod

A panoramic vision of Bob Dylan, his music, his shifting place in American culture, from multiple angles. In fact, reading Sean Wilentz's Bob Dylan…

— Martin Scorsese

Except in these latter-day songs, [Bob] Dylan is a grizzled old prophet who's already been to hell and back.

— Jay Michaelson

I'm not that kind of Bob Dylan, tortured creative.

— Ben Barnes

Bob Dylan seems to me a totally pernicious influence - the nasal whine of death and masochism. Certainly, this would be a more cheerful…

— Robert Anton Wilson

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

— 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 hypocrisy.

— Jay Michaelson

The same is true of ranking him thus against any work of literature. [Bob Dylan] has been made, through no fault of his own,…

— David Bennun

The "joker" here ["All Along the Watchtower" ] is the older [Bob] Dylan himself, whining about exploitation, and the thief's rejoinder re-contextualizes the earlier…

— Bob Dylan

[Bob] Dylan, like Johnny Cash and only a handful of others, simultaneously embodies the American dream and the harsh wake-up call that comes after…

— Jay Michaelson