Abba Quote by David Bennun

[Bob] Dylan thus deserves the Nobel Prize, not just for "new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," as the Nobel committee aptly…

— Jay Michaelson

The point is not that [Bob] Dylan doesn't need a Nobel to attest to how good he is (although he doesn't.) It's that pop…

— David Bennun

I think Bob Dylan showed us that songs can rise to the level of literature, and he proved it over and over again. That's…

— Mary Gauthier

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

[Bob Dylan] builds his lyrics, of course, from personal experience, but it's also a literary work. He draws heavily on his knowledge of American…

— Sjon

[Bob Dylan] is a worthy laureate for the Nobel Prize.

— Sjon

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 as influential as any artist that there has been.

— Robbie Robertson

[I have] my own view about [Bob] Dylan's Nobel prize. Which is, I'm firmly in the Nay camp. I do think the award is…

— David Bennun

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

— Steve Earle

Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won't bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say…

— Anonymous

And what makes Bob Dylan stories interesting is that the only person who can decide their outcome is Bob Dylan, so you never know…

— Tom Junod