Bob Quote by Nat Hentoff

Just in time for Bob Dylan to recoil from the attention, leave the city for Woodstock, and turn his back on fame.

— Bob Dylan

In the '60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protest song. There were songs about…

— George Clooney

The [Bob] Dylan sessions were very disorganized, to say the least. I mean, the "Like A Rolling Stone" session I was invited by the…

— Al Kooper

[Bob] Dylan began to incorporate things into that scene that were controversial then. He got shouted at in Newport when he played electric guitar,…

— T Bone Burnett

“It was not even necessary for people to know how to sing to be considered rock musicians. Bob Dylan had no clue, but that…

— Frans Johansson

I suspect many readers might associate [Bob Dylan] with one of the shortest phases of his career, the time from 1963 to '65 when…

— Jay Michaelson

And I don't expect anyone can bring about a revolution in the way that Bob Dylan did - and really didn't - in the…

— Michael Stipe

Producing Bob Dylan was pretty much a spectator sport.

— Al Kooper

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

— Jimmy Iovine

I think, especially among the New York intelligentsia at that time, that there was a reason Bob Dylan went to New York to happen,…

— T Bone Burnett

In the 1960s, people like Bob Dylan, his music and words were a threat to the society and mainstream of the time. It shook…

— G.W. Sok

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

— Steve Earle