Bob Quote by Sjon Download Open image “[Bob Dylan] is a worthy laureate for the Nobel Prize.” — Sjon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bob Dylan Nobel Nobel prize Prize Worthy
[Bob] Dylan thus deserves the Nobel Prize, not just for "new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," as the Nobel committee aptly… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
The [Nobel] prize is for literature.[Bob] Dylan is a songwriter. Here is where the argument starts to get interesting, because here is where it… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
I won't comment on what Bob Dylan said, but I will comment on his receiving the Nobel Prize, which to me is like pinning… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The point is not that [Bob] Dylan doesn't need a Nobel to attest to how good he is (although he doesn't.) It's that pop… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
The [Nobel] award [of Bob Dylan] is no affront to literature; it is an insult to pop music. It is a condescending ruffle of… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
Funny thing about Bob Dylan, the newest Nobel laureate in literature: He's been a master of self-invention for more than 50 years, creating personae,… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan, Nobel laureate. A new fact so shocking that even the year's most notable deaths have not outdone it for the volume (in… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
[I have] my own view about [Bob] Dylan's Nobel prize. Which is, I'm firmly in the Nay camp. I do think the award is… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
The general sentiment among the Yeas is, no accolade is too high for their man; and the Nobel being, literally, the gold standard among… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
There's no reason - not yet, anyway - to believe [Bob] Dylan himself endorses such an attitude; or that he would think of himself… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
[ Bob Dylan] should let the Nobel Prize Committee know if he is accepting it or not. He will not be the first one… — Sjon Copy Share Image
[Bob Dylan] builds his lyrics, of course, from personal experience, but it's also a literary work. He draws heavily on his knowledge of American… — Sjon Copy Share Image
All authors secretly hope that their works will be read in 100 years' time and 200 years, and that they will somehow survive into the future. — Sjon Copy Share Image
[Bob Dylan] builds his lyrics, of course, from personal experience, but it's also a literary work. He draws heavily on his knowledge of American… — Sjon Copy Share Image
One thing for sure is it will be written in the Icelandic language. All of my literary work is. — Sjon Copy Share Image
Politics enter dangerous ground, when people proclaim there are simple answers for our complex world. — Sjon Copy Share Image
I will just take the chance that the language will still be relevant in 100 years, which is something we cannot take for granted… — Sjon Copy Share Image
Bjork is one of my oldest friends so we share the friendship and common roots. That is what we build on when we work… — Sjon Copy Share Image
“I felt the heat of the animosity they bear towards me, the vindictive nature that drives a man to destroy his neighbour in a… — Sjón Copy Share Image
I have to face questions like, "Do I simply write the best text I possibly can? Do I specifically engage with contemporary issues? 'Do… — Sjon Copy Share Image
I usually leave Reykavik for two to three weeks to go to the South Coast of Iceland where I have a small fisherman's hut… — Sjon 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