Bob 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

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

— Steve Earle

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

— Jimmy Iovine

Bob Dylan truly is a poet whose song is part of the poetry.

— Richard F. Thomas

I think that with Bob Dylan around, we're living in an era where we have Whitman presenting new work, we have Dickens presenting new…

— Benmont Tench

I am a Bob Dylan fan.

— Tim Kaine

Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.

— Steve Earle

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

— Bob Dylan

Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects.…

— Pete Townshend

Bob Dylan was uncomfortable being known as just a protest singer. He wanted to go back into himself and do what he wanted to…

— Nat Hentoff

I think we need to sort of broaden our definition of poetry, which maybe it's a good thing that they just gave this Nobel…

— Jim Jarmusch

I've grown up on Bob Dylan and all that, but there was a certain standard set up by people before 1955.

— Leon Russell