Bob Quote by Daniel Smith

Bob Dylan enabled rock & roll to grow up and survive. He injected the power of language and ideas into the music.

— Jimmy Iovine

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

— Jay Michaelson

Bob Dylan was the source of pop music's unpredictability in the Sixties. Never as big a record-seller as commonly imagined, his importance was first…

— Jon Landau

After an initial solo album in which the young [Bob] Dylan was just finding his voice (i.e., reinventing himself from the middle-class Robert Zimmerman…

— Jay Michaelson

Bob Dylan led me to this kind of music - and it's his and ours. And it's nobody else's.

— Jakob Dylan

Somebody had to be Bob Dylan. I guess I was best equipped to do the job.

— Bob Dylan

The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard,…

— Robert Fitzgerald

From the moment [Bob] Dylan arrived as a songwriter, he was [so] much better than everybody else around.

— Steve Earle

In Paris in 1964 was the first time I ever heard Dylan at all. Paul got the record (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan) from a…

— John Lennon

Growing up, I didn't really like folk music - I wasn't a fan of Bob Dylan. I grew up mostly listening to rap and…

— Max Casella

The single biggest inspiration I have was Bob Dylan.

— Ryan Bingham

Bob Dylan is as influential as any artist that there has been.

— Robbie Robertson