America Quote by Jay Michaelson

[Bob] Dylan, like Johnny Cash and only a handful of others, simultaneously embodies the American dream and the harsh wake-up call that comes after…

— Jay Michaelson

The exploitation and superficiality of mainstream America is the object not of [Bob] Dylan's hipster scorn, but of an apocalyptic parable of holy fools…

— Bob Dylan

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

A panoramic vision of Bob Dylan, his music, his shifting place in American culture, from multiple angles. In fact, reading Sean Wilentz's Bob Dylan…

— Martin Scorsese

I am a Bob Dylan fan.

— Tim Kaine

Except in these latter-day songs, [Bob] Dylan is a grizzled old prophet who's already been to hell and back.

— Jay Michaelson

Bob [Dylan] is not authentic at all. He's a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception. We…

— Joni Mitchell

[Bob Dylan] is a preacher but also a sinner; a poet but also a pitchman; authentic all-American but also invented persona.

— Jay Michaelson

Plenty more of the Nays sound perfectly sincere, though. They may genuinely dislike [Bob] Dylan; they may even enjoy or admire him, but just…

— David Bennun

I'm a [Bob] Dylan freak, like everybody else.

— George Thorogood

Ask people who know him for a description of Bob Dylan outside the prerogatives of fame and the obligations of art, and they have…

— Tom Junod

Well, I love Bob Dylan, let's make that clear. He's one of my musical heroes.

— Tim Heidecker