Bob Quote by Richard F. Thomas Download Open image “Bob Dylan truly is a poet whose song is part of the poetry.” — Richard F. Thomas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bob Dylan Poet Poetry Song
I think everyone mentions Bob Dylan, but he's someone I just admire so much as a songwriter. I think people write songs, and then… — Tom Odell Copy Share Image
I was comparatively late in understanding Bob Dylan's overwhelming importance as a songwriter. Everybody who does my job exists in the shadow of Bob… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Well, I love Bob Dylan, let's make that clear. He's one of my musical heroes. — Tim Heidecker Copy Share Image
I think Bob Dylan's a good songwriter. I think he's the best songwriter in the world probably. — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are some singer-songwriters who start out as poets. So someone like Leonard Cohen wrote and published poetry in the early 60s, but then… — Richard F. Thomas Copy Share Image
When I first heard Bob Dylan, I'll be honest, I didn't like him. But I was shallow of mind and didn't understand the poetry.… — Jose Feliciano Copy Share Image
Lyrics should not need to stand on their own; many of [Bob] Dylan's do, but in common with other great lyricists, he has written… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
From the moment [Bob] Dylan arrived as a songwriter, he was [so] much better than everybody else around. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
“One of the powerful functions of a library — any library — lies in its ability to take us away from worlds that are… — Richard F. Thomas Copy Share Image
Some artists respond to critics' questions about their art. I think Bob Dylan would alwys refuse to respond to questions of that sort, he… — Richard F. Thomas Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan tells interviewers what he wants to tell them, not what they necessarily want to know. His responses are really part of the… — Richard F. Thomas Copy Share Image
Blues songs, like folk songs, are a continuous stream, and catching the continuities and thefts is part of what puts meaning and complexity into… — Richard F. Thomas Copy Share Image
One of the powerful functions of a library-any library-lies in its ability to take us away from worlds that are familiar and comfortable and… — Richard F. Thomas Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are some singer-songwriters who start out as poets. So someone like Leonard Cohen wrote and published poetry in the early 60s, but then… — Richard F. Thomas Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan tends not to have geographical or chronological markers that tie a song to any specific context, so they stay alive, stay relevant. — Richard F. Thomas Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I think anyone that grew up in the '70s and '80s grew up with Bob Barker and Wink Martindale and I think that was… — Guy Fieri Copy Share Image
Except in these latter-day songs, [Bob] Dylan is a grizzled old prophet who's already been to hell and back. — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
Over the past 50 years Bob Hope employed 88 joke writers who supplied him with more than one million gags, and he still couldn't… — Eddie Murphy Copy Share Image
I like men who are very cool but who are also so brilliant that they are almost insane. Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, Bob Dylan,… — Jolene Blalock Copy Share Image
I was very engaged by the folk music movement.Bob Dylan; Joan Baez; Peter, Paul and Mary. And then I sort of discovered world music,… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The most recent incarnation of [Bob] Dylan has been the traveling journeyman/ charlatan who sings roots music, snarls dark lyrics that make "All Along… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
Well. We’ll just have to hope that this wasn’t a loup-garou, I guess.” “If it was a louper, you’d know,” Bob said wisely. “In… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Because of my tremendous respect for Bob Barker and for the show's high standards of professionalism I consider this a tremendous honor that few… — Randy West Copy Share Image
Everybody who I ever cared about has told me that they like my music: Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Al Green, The Spinners, Smokey Robinson.… — Daryl Hall Copy Share Image
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