Top 621 Dylan Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on November 18, 2024.
If I had an axe on the evening at Newport when [Dylan] broke out the electric guitar, I'd have cut his cable.
I have nothing against Dylan O'Brien! He's one of my favorite people. I have so much respect for him and his work.
The people at Dylan's Candy Bar, they have to have an inner child and a sense of fun... and love the colors and the textures.
Courtney Love's name should be right next to Bob Dylan when they say best lyricist of all time.
Dylan Jerome," the lawyer admits, "wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him.
[Bob Dylan] was rarely tender and seldom reached out to anticipate another's needs.
I'm doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It's a wonderful script.
From the moment [Bob] Dylan arrived as a songwriter, he was [so] much better than everybody else around.
I started writing when I was 17. I got an acoustic guitar for my birthday after I discovered Bob Dylan and James Taylor.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again - one can believe in Woody Allen's innocence without presuming Dylan Farrow to be a liar.
Bob Dylan will be thirty years old this month..." "That's the most depressing thing I've ever heard.
[Bob] Dylan would cut out phrases from magazines and then paste them together.
Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
"Subterranean Homesick Blues" [of Bob Dylan] captures, in word-salad format, life in an encroaching police state.
Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes.
Maybe high school would have been a good time to have a little Dylan McKay in my life.
Bob Dylan is one of the very few people in the history of popular music who you can unquestionably apply that word [genius] to.
When I heard his first songs, Dylan was answering certain questions that I had all my life been asking myself.
The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin', in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.
I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.
Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me musically.
I didn't come after Elvis and Dylan, I've been around always. But if I see or meet a great artist, I love 'em.
I can't do that wonderful thing that Tom Waits and Bob Dylan do - to do imagery. I'm not good at that. I just write from the heart.
Musically Bob [Dylan] is a primitive. He's not a Gershwin, or somebody that uses eloquent music terms.
Bob Dylan led me to this kind of music - and it's his and ours. And it's nobody else's.
I sounded like Bob Dylan for about five minutes, and it was blown out of all proportion.
Once I'd heard 'Modern Times' by Bob Dylan, it really changed the way I wanted to make records.
[Bob] Dylan's broken-heart songs are so much better. Like "Simple Twist of Fate".
Something Dylan and I really don't care much for is leaning into the identical twin thing. It doesn't make sense.
If you wanted to, it would be easy to find some crappy lyrics [of Bob Dylan] from the Eighties to undermine the Nobel Prize.
My favorite Dylan song? I think it's 'Just Like a Woman.' It always makes me cry.
I really believe that Bob Dylan and others have speeded up the changes. Pacifism has found a voice at last.
I couldn't have asked for a better testimonial than Bob Dylan parting with his own cash for a pair of my shoes.
In the '60s, I used to love rock magazines; I'd cut out pictures of Bob Dylan and John Lennon.
Religion is commodified; the educational system is a sham; and yet,[Bob] Dylan wonders, everyone has to stand naked sometime.
The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we've got to risk it, too.
I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth.
Folk music had long been political but [Bob] Dylan's poetry took it to a new level.
My musical tastes go from Zeppelin to Bob Dylan to Kanye West and Lil' Wayne. Anything modern and progressive.
Look at Bob Dylan: his voice is not a great sound, but it gets the idea across... and that is what's really important.
Bob Dylan enabled rock & roll to grow up and survive. He injected the power of language and ideas into the music.
The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.
The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan's look good.
The early Bob Dylan was compulsively drawn to the conflict between stability and the search for immortality.
[Bob] Dylan is a contemporary Don Quixote, at once besotted by the promise of America and yet also undermining it.
I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I`ve known in my life. That`s just the truth.
The current tax code is harder to understand than Bob Dylan reading Finnegans Wake in a wind tunnel.
After the Beatles and Dylan, there's this assumption that you are a singer-songwriter, or that if someone else is writing your rhymes, you're a fake rapper.
We soaked up everything from Beethoven to Chopin to Jimi Hendrix to Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan.
Just in time for Bob Dylan to recoil from the attention, leave the city for Woodstock, and turn his back on fame.
In late [Bob] Dylan, music is the key to immortality, even though the summer days are long gone.
Except in these latter-day songs, [Bob] Dylan is a grizzled old prophet who's already been to hell and back.
Dylan's relationship with Johnny Cash was the biggest influence on Nashville in my lifetime - they opened up country music.
I guess I haven't talked to Bob Dylan since before then [interview to Rolling Stones]. I follow his career.
Bob Dylan has and Einstein had their own way of perceiving the universe and translating it for us.
You could live in Winnipeg a thousand years and not meet Ringo, Paul McCartney, or Bob Dylan.
Bob Dylan said, "The executioner's face is always well-hidden". That's the problem: The cross pulls that hood off.
And I don't expect anyone can bring about a revolution in the way that Bob Dylan did - and really didn't - in the 1960s.
Bob Dylan was again an entirely new person - this time old, craggy, cynical, and world-weary, as in "Not Dark Yet".