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Dylan Quotes by Greil Marcus
- Bob Dylan continues to release odd and unsettling records, and to do odd and unsettling things on stage. So the term 'still' seems meaningless to…
- I never could understand - it was impossible for me to get my head around - what the furor was, what the sense of betrayal…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.…
More Dylan Quotes
- Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it's not just a record, it's a movement. — Seth Godin
- But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging. ... Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the… — Warren Zevon
- 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… — Justin Townes Earle
- I started with the chorus of that song, kind of like a fun bouncy thing to play, and then one of the… — Jorma Kaukonen
- Songwriting is like fishing in a stream; you put in your line and hope to catch something. And I don't think anyone… — Arlo Guthrie
- Sometimes I do a Dylan song and it seems to fit me so right that I figure maybe I wrote it. Dylan… — Jimi Hendrix
- Jake La Botz is a creator of dark poetry and haunting song, the kind of music that gets in your bones and… — Jerry Stahl
- Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever… — Tom Chapin