Top 1200 Bob Dylan Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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I love Bob Dylan. 'Blood on the Tracks' is one of my top five records.

Bob Dylan's not a hype and a haircut: he's the real thing.

I love that Bob Dylan asked me to be in the first movie he wrote.

I have three dads: my biological father, God and Bob Dylan.

Bob Dylan, I'd say, is probably my favorite musician.

One of the autobiographies I really liked was Bob Dylan's. It was interesting because he didn't do it in a linear fashion.

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

Bob Dylan led me to this kind of music - and it's his and ours. And it's nobody else's.

Jack Johnson, John Mayer, Neil Young and Bob Dylan are my main influences.

Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing.

I'm a [Bob] Dylan freak, like everybody else.

I sounded like Bob Dylan for about five minutes, and it was blown out of all proportion.

The drama teacher that I had in high school, back in Texas, was the only teacher who didn't kick me out of his class. He turned me on to 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.' I had picked up Dylan with 'Bringing It All Back Home,' and he turned me on to the first couple of albums, which I hadn't heard.

Bob Dylan has and Einstein had their own way of perceiving the universe and translating it for us.

Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it's not just a record, it's a movement.

Musically Bob [Dylan] is a primitive. He's not a Gershwin, or somebody that uses eloquent music terms.

[Bob] Dylan is a contemporary Don Quixote, at once besotted by the promise of America and yet also undermining it.

From the moment [Bob] Dylan arrived as a songwriter, he was [so] much better than everybody else around.

I would just say there are no two roles that are more demanding than Bob Dylan of 1966 [Blanchett's role in 'I'm Not There'] and Carol Aird of 1952. I challenge any director out there to come up with a wider divide. I had to convince her to take the Dylan role, and that took effort. But with 'Carol,' she was already attached.

I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him.

[Bob] Dylan would cut out phrases from magazines and then paste them together.

Bob Dylan is out of the mentorship of Allen Ginsberg.

I'm a catalogue artist: I compete with Bob Dylan.

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

The single biggest inspiration I have was Bob Dylan.

I always love listening to Bob Dylan. 'Blood on the Tracks' is one of my favorite albums.

I'm a big Bob Dylan fan. I'm also a blues geek.

The most memorable moment was playing drums with Bob Dylan.

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.

Producing Bob Dylan was pretty much a spectator sport.

Bob Dylan truly is a poet whose song is part of the poetry.

If you going to live by a certain code - as Bob Dylan said, you gotta serve somebody.

Somebody had to be Bob Dylan. I guess I was best equipped to do the job.

Well, I love Bob Dylan, let's make that clear. He's one of my musical heroes.

We soaked up everything from Beethoven to Chopin to Jimi Hendrix to Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan.

And you don't want to just totally mess up the rhythm when you're playing with Bob Dylan.

Any real Bob Dylan fan would sleep with Jonah Lehrer.

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

I used to read a lot of Steinbeck, and I admired Roger Miller and Bob Dylan.

[Bob] Dylan's broken-heart songs are so much better. Like "Simple Twist of Fate".

You could live in Winnipeg a thousand years and not meet Ringo, Paul McCartney, or Bob Dylan.

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.

I thought he was the greatest thing. Bob Dylan.

I'm not that kind of Bob Dylan, tortured creative.

First of all, there are those who simply don't care for [Bob] Dylan, or at least, don't think he's that great. Some of the former sound very much as if they are afflicted with the kind of contrarianism inevitably bred by cultural orthodoxy - Dylan is overwhelmingly rated a giant and a marvel, the acclamation of whom they feel to be de rigueur; and rather than judge for themselves, they embrace the opposite view.

I never had this ego where I must write everything. I'm not Bob Dylan.

[Bob Dylan] was rarely tender and seldom reached out to anticipate another's needs.

Without music, there is not the faintest chance [Bob Dylan] words would now be garlanded as they are.

I think Bob [Dylan] told me that he turned down twenty interviews that year, and I was the only one that he sat down and did an interview with. And, he said that it was one of his highlights, and it was one of my highlights. And, I was very glad to talk with Bob. I found out that he was a good fan of mine, and that tickled me.

It's always Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Tom Waits for me - the big three.

When I first started singing in Paris, I sounded horrible: I was just singing to get some money to eat. And I wasn't singing my own songs: it was Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix. Eventually, when I wrote my own music, my style just came out of my own place.

Ironically, this was Bob Dylan's period [1967-74] of greatest fame.

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

I admire those old road dogs, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan. That's their life.

I have seen quite a few folk whom I know to be both fair minded and, as it happens,[Bob] Dylan fans, take up cudgels for this position. To them, it's not necessarily that Dylan doesn't merit the highest honour. It's that he doesn't merit this specific highest honour [Nobel prize], in the way a champion pole vaulter shouldn't be given a medal for the long jump. It is in this group that the Wahey!s are mainly to be found, firing off jests, or mock solemnly reciting Dylan's sillier lyrics as if these are entirely representative of his oeuvre.

His [Bob Dylan] humour was dry and splendid.

A brilliant 1989 album, Oh Mercy; some career retrospectives; and two albums of American folk songs, with just Bob Dylan and his guitar and harmonica. All that culminated in the Grammy-winning comeback album, Time Out of Mind (1997). Once again, just as Dylan seemed to be out of it, he was back at the top of his game.

[Bob Dylan] is principally a recording artist, and if he weren't, it is unthinkable he would have had such an impact. He is to be heard first and read second. Well, what about plays, you could reasonably ask. Is [William] Shakespeare not great literature? Yes, obviously: but his work is great literature even to those who have never known it performed. The same is evidently not true of Dylan.

I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan's look good.