Dylan Quotes

196 quotes by 149 authors

I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash. — Iris DeMent
I loved working with Bob Dylan. — Benmont Tench
Creativity is the life force that Dylan Thomas called 'the force that through the green fuse drives the flower. — Julia Cameron
The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we've got to risk it too. — Steve Jobs
Well, I love Bob Dylan, let's make that clear. He's one of my musical heroes. — Tim Heidecker
Back in the old days, everyone was shocked if a band had a sponsor for their tour. Now, Bob Dylan can do a commercial for… — Judd Apatow
I never could understand - it was impossible for me to get my head around - what the furor was, what the sense of betrayal… — Greil Marcus
Along with a lot of other things, becoming a Bob Dylan fan made me a writer. I was never interested in figuring out what the… — Greil Marcus
What always attracted me to [Bob] Dylan, and what has sustained me as a Dylan listener, or has always continued to surprise me, is his… — Greil Marcus
I am a critic who is pulled toward history. But Bob Dylan himself is a great historian. He is an historian who acts out history.… — Greil Marcus
I've never bought a Dylan record. A singing poet? It just bores me to tears. I've got to tell you, if I had 10 Dylans… — Simon Cowell
I call it fan fatigue. I went to see Bob Dylan last year, who I think is absolutely incredible, but he suffers from his audience. — Roger Daltrey
I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me. — Bob Dylan
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be. — Bob Dylan
If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself. — Bob Dylan
Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say… — Steve Earle
Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I can understand that. — Steve Earle
My musical tastes go from Zeppelin to Bob Dylan to Kanye West and Lil' Wayne. Anything modern and progressive. — Josh Hartnett
Forever Young, by Dylan, is one of my favorite songs. — Levon Helm
I've had mentors who were kind of the troubadour singer-songwriters, like Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Neil Young, and that's just… — Jewel

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