Accepting Quote by Sjon

[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

[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

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

[Bob Dylan] is a worthy laureate for the Nobel Prize.

— Sjon

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

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

[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

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

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

And what makes Bob Dylan stories interesting is that the only person who can decide their outcome is Bob Dylan, so you never know…

— Tom Junod

[Bob] Dylan may, for whatever reasons of his own, do nothing of the sort with the Nobel committee. Up there on Parnassus, that is…

— David Bennun

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