Dylan Quote by Walter Isaacson

“In the human world, Dylan was headstrong and quick tempered. Like a live wire, sparking and glowing beside the paleness of everything else in…

— Samantha Boyette

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

— Steve Earle

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

— Jimmy Iovine

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

The early Bob Dylan was compulsively drawn to the conflict between stability and the search for immortality.

— Jon Landau

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

Before Dylan, before rock became art, it was a wonderful fusion of pop structure and personal statements.

— Steven Van Zandt

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

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Anonymous

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Nana Mouskouri