Arrangements Quote by Richard F. Thomas

After an initial solo album in which the young [Bob] Dylan was just finding his voice (i.e., reinventing himself from the middle-class Robert Zimmerman…

— Jay Michaelson

I've always loved the fact that Bob's [Dylan] been able to sustain his mystery over 50 or 60 years.

— Bruce Springsteen

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

— Bob Dylan

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

In late [Bob] Dylan, music is the key to immortality, even though the summer days are long gone.

— Jay Michaelson

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

— Jay Michaelson

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

— Jay Michaelson

My favorite Bob Dylan record is the very first one where he sings one Bob Dylan song and the rest of them are his…

— Chris Cornell

It's got to be hard to be a band that's trading on your 40-year-old hits, where there's a certain thing that's expected of you.…

— Amy Argetsinger

What always attracted me to [Bob] Dylan, and what has sustained me as a Dylan listener, or has always continued to surprise me, is…

— Greil Marcus

Unlike many Sixties rockers,[Bob] Dylan sang about getting old, about broken dreams. His return to roots music pointed the way for many of his…

— Jay Michaelson

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