Acoustics Quote by Jay Michaelson

Bob Dylan started out as a folk rip- off but he quickly ran with complex influences and it ended up to be his own…

— Daniel Smith

Most people think that I heard Bob Dylan first and got a cap and harmonica. Really, it was Woody Guthrie. He was so influential.

— Donovan

The thing about Bob Dylan's performative essence is that he keeps singing these old songs as well as the new songs, and the old…

— Richard F. Thomas

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

Growing up in the icy isolation of Hibbing, Minn., Dylan, who was still Robert Allen Zimmerman then, found comfort in the country, blues, and…

— Robert Hilburn

What always attracted me to [Bob] Dylan, and what has sustained me as a Dylan listener, or has always continued to surprise me, is…

— Greil Marcus

Hear this Robert Zimmerman, I wrote a song for you, about a strange young man called Dylan with a voice like sand and glue.

— David Bowie

Bob Dylan was again an entirely new person - this time old, craggy, cynical, and world-weary, as in "Not Dark Yet".

— Bob Dylan

If Woody Guthrie set the bar for American songwriters, Bob Dylan jumped right over it. No one I know will ever come close to…

— John Mellencamp

It's got to be hard to be a band that's trading on your 40-year-old hits, where there's a certain thing that's expected of you.…

— Amy Argetsinger

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