Angry Quote by Pete Townshend

I started being me about the songs, not writing objectively, but subjectively. I think it was Dylan who helped me realize that - not…

— John Lennon

The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came…

— Jackson Browne

What we learned quite early on is what was really important to early British pop that we produced-and this is where we were distinct…

— Pete Townshend

The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.

— Ed Sheeran

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

— Jimmy Iovine

But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the pop genre and represent them…

— Pete Townshend

Folk music had long been political but [Bob] Dylan's poetry took it to a new level.

— Jay Michaelson

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

[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

Producing Bob Dylan was pretty much a spectator sport.

— Al Kooper

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

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