Dylan Quotes - Page 3

• I don't think [Dylan and the Beatles] influenced me a lot. I think it was inevitable; they were so powerful that you couldn't really escape the influence.

  Paul Simon

  Powerful, Thinking, Influence

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• Any real Bob Dylan fan would sleep with Jonah Lehrer.

  Bob Dylan

  Real, Sleep, Fans

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• [Bob] Dylan may, for whatever reasons of his own, do nothing of the sort with the Nobel committee. Up there on Parnassus, that is his unquestionable prerogative. But here on my anthill, it's mine to say: oh, do piss off, you ineffable snobs.

  David Bennun

  May, Bob, Reason

  Source: thequietus.com

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• 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 and music with candy. Since then, we have been fortunate to pioneer artistic partnerships with many legends.

  Dylan Lauren

  Fashion, Art, Pioneers

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• I think people are just creative, and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan and David Bowie create both music and art.

  Ronnie Wood

  Art, Thinking, Numbers

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• There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.

  Del Shannon

  Song, Writing, Artist

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• I always believed a singer should be able to sing any kind of song. If I wanted to sing a Cole Porter song, I should be able to do that. Or Sherry, I should be able to do that. Or a Dylan song.

  Frankie Valli

  Song, Singers, Able

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• "Masters of War" [of Bob Dylan] wasn't peacenik, anti-war stuff. With its minor key and uncompromising final lines ("And I hope that you die/And your death'll come soon/ I will follow your casket/ In the pale afternoon...") this was a previously unknown hybrid of caustic political commentary and punk rock, which itself wouldn't be invented for another decade or so.

  Jay Michaelson

  War, Keys, Rocks

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I'm always looking for overlooked post-Dylan singer-songwriter records from the '70s.

  Noah Baumbach

  Records, Singers, Singer-songwriters

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• I would say, from an all-around point of view, Bruce Springsteen is one of the two great poet lords of America, Bob Dylan, coming out of the music world, the two of them.

  Clive Davis

  Views, Two, America

  "Clive Davis in No Spin Zone". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. March 07, 2013.

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• Bob Dylan is great. Ive been compared to him a lot. I think when people see a person on stage with a guitar they just think, Bob Dylan!

  Jake Bugg

  Thinking, Guitar, People

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• ...You couldn't help being influenced by Dylan.

  Al Kooper

  Helping

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• I started being me about the songs, not writing objectively, but subjectively. I think it was Dylan who helped me realize that - not by any discussion or anything, but by hearing his work.

  John Lennon

  Music, Song, Writing

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• In Paris in 1964 was the first time I ever heard Dylan at all. Paul got the record (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan) from a French DJ. For three weeks in Paris we didn't stop playing it. We all went potty about Dylan.

  John Lennon

  Music, Paris, Three

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• We're often afraid to do anything unless we know we can do it extremely well. But we get to Carnegie Hall by practicing. I remember how freeing it was several years ago to read in an interview with Joan Baez that some of Bob Dylan's early songs weren't so wonderful. We have this image of genius springing fully grown out of Zeus' forehead.

  Marianne Williamson

  Song, Years, Genius

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• I think I'm the oldest new Bob Dylan around. I predate Bruce Springsteen, Steve Forbat and John Prine. I was probably the first of the new Bob Dylans.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Thinking, Bob, Firsts

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• If poetry were nothing but texture, [Dylan] Thomas would be as good as any poet alive. The what of his poems is hardly essential to their success, and the best and most brilliantly written pieces usually say less than the worst.

  Randall Jarrell

  Essentials, Would Be, Pieces

  "Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964". Book by Randall Jarrell,"Poetry in a Dry Season" (p. 36), 1980.

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• I think that's what Dylan's trying to do: to create a space artistically where something else can take shape, can take life - where there's hope.

  Sean Wilentz

  Thinking, Space, Trying

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• If Bob Dylan really is an historian in and of himself in his work, in his performances, he is also an historian with a unique sense of humor. There's always been a bit of a stand-up comic in him.

  Greil Marcus

  Unique, Bob, Sense Of Humor

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• I first met (Bob Dylan) in '65. We've had a friendship for a long time. He decided to play on a record I was making in New York. We were just friends playing together.

  Doug Sahm

  New York, Play, Long

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• 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 into a pseudo-hobo Woody Guthrie), Dylan put out two acoustic albums that forever changed popular music.

  Jay Michaelson

  Class, Two, Voice

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I'd been going though his trash. He knocked me down. I was glad to see him, even though he was banging my head against the sidewalk. Afterwards these bums come over and say, 'Did he get much money?' I say, 'Money'? That was Bob Dylan.

  Bob Dylan

  Bob, Trash, Banging

  "Why Bob Dylan deserves the Nobel Prize in Literature". Interview with Robert Chalmers, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. October 13, 2016.

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• In the meantime [1963-65], [Bob] Dylan was writing some of the best love songs in the genre, like "Girl From the North Country," "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright," and "It Ain't Me, Babe."

  Jay Michaelson

  Girl, Country, Song

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• He [Johnny Cash] always wanted to use his music to lift other people up, to say no matter how much trouble, there's hope. That was always his message in his songs. That's why he and [Bob] Dylan bonded so much, because they were both trying to do something meaningful.

  Robert Hilburn

  Meaningful, Song, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Probably the high-watermark of [Bob] Dylan's career came after he plugged in his guitar ("Judas!" one fan shouted during a concert) and exploded American poetry, combining Beat aesthetics, psychedelic imagery, collage techniques.

  Jay Michaelson

  Guitar, Careers, Technique

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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