Dylan Quotes
196 quotes by 149 authors
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In the '60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protest song. There were songs about the…
— George Clooney
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Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so…
— Kurt Cobain
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Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it's not just a record, it's a movement.
— Seth Godin
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Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams...all of them are different styles, but those are the songs that make the times...they're the songs that…
— Dolly Parton
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But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging. ... Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in…
— Warren Zevon
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I don't think I have any right to say I belong to that [Woody Guthrie/Bob Dylan tradition]. I think that's something that eventually maybe you…
— Justin Townes Earle
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I started with the chorus of that song, kind of like a fun bouncy thing to play, and then one of the lines popped up:…
— Jorma Kaukonen
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Songwriting is like fishing in a stream; you put in your line and hope to catch something. And I don't think anyone downstream from Bob…
— Arlo Guthrie
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Sometimes I do a Dylan song and it seems to fit me so right that I figure maybe I wrote it. Dylan didn’t always do…
— Jimi Hendrix
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I love Dylan. I only met him once, about three years ago, back at the Kettle of Fish on MacDougal Street. That was before I…
— Jimi Hendrix
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I love Bob Dylan, I really do. I love his early work, I love the first time he plugged in electrically, I love his Christian…
— Johnny Cash
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Bob Dylan is out of the mentorship of Allen Ginsberg.
— Peter Fonda
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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
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I have Bob Dylan lyrics on my ribs. I'm a diehard Dylan fan, and my dad and I joke that if I ever met him,…
— Carly Chaikin
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Gordon Lightfoot has created some of the most beautiful and lasting music of our time. He is Bob Dylan's favorite singer/songwriter - high praise from…
— Kris Kristofferson
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Bob [Dylan] is not authentic at all. He's a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception. We are…
— Joni Mitchell
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My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did.
— Dylan Walsh
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I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for…
— Alan Lomax
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And you don't want to just totally mess up the rhythm when you're playing with Bob Dylan.
— Jenna Elfman
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My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
Who Wrote These Dylan Quotes
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