Bob Quote by T Bone Burnett

Bob Dylan was uncomfortable being known as just a protest singer. He wanted to go back into himself and do what he wanted to…

— Nat Hentoff

I always knew that sooner or later there would come somebody like Woody Guthrie who could make a great song every week. Dylan certainly…

— Pete Seeger

[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

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

— Steve Earle

Just in time for Bob Dylan to recoil from the attention, leave the city for Woodstock, and turn his back on fame.

— Bob Dylan

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

— Jimmy Iovine

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

— Jay Michaelson

Most of the songs came from Europe and Africa and now they were coming back to us. Many of [Bob] Dylan's best songs came…

— John Lennon

Bob Dylan is as influential as any artist that there has been.

— Robbie Robertson

The exploitation and superficiality of mainstream America is the object not of [Bob] Dylan's hipster scorn, but of an apocalyptic parable of holy fools…

— Bob Dylan

Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects.…

— Pete Townshend

And I don't expect anyone can bring about a revolution in the way that Bob Dylan did - and really didn't - in the…

— Michael Stipe