Art Quote by Steven Van Zandt

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

— Jimmy Iovine

Dylan's 'Chronicles' is easily the best rock n' roll memoir ever written, as far as I'm concerned. There aren't many stories in there, but…

— Nick Hornby

“It was not even necessary for people to know how to sing to be considered rock musicians. Bob Dylan had no clue, but that…

— Frans Johansson

Bob Dylan was the source of pop music's unpredictability in the Sixties. Never as big a record-seller as commonly imagined, his importance was first…

— Jon Landau

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

When I heard his first songs, Dylan was answering certain questions that I had all my life been asking myself.

— Nana Mouskouri

When I started Dylan's Candy Bar in 2001, I wanted it to be a place that merged my love of pop culture, fashion, art…

— Dylan Lauren

Bob Dylan started out as a folk rip- off but he quickly ran with complex influences and it ended up to be his own…

— Daniel Smith

Dylan used to sound like a lung cancer victim singing Woody Guthrie. Now he sounds like a Rolling Stone singing Immanuel Kant.

— Anonymous

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 emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.

— Steve Earle

[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