Bob Dylan Quotes

If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.
Bob Dylan

Answers, Bob, Dylan

Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
Don Van Vliet

Gonna, Bob, Slug

I'll never be Bob Dylan. He's the master.
Neil Young

Master, Bob, Dylan

Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes.
Pete Townshend

Long, Four, Stone

Well, I met Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan in the space of 15 minutes. Frank Sinatra kissed me on the lips. He kissed me on the lips. And then he gave me a filterless cigarette. And then I met Bob Dylan. I came off all lightheaded and had to go sit on his dressing-room steps.
Kate Moss

Off, Space, Gave

Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre.
Pete Townshend

Men, Angry, Political

We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.
Jon Bon Jovi

Music, Business, Live

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

Artist, Compete, Bob

I call it fan fatigue. I went to see Bob Dylan last year, who I think is absolutely incredible, but he suffers from his audience.
Roger Daltrey

Last, Year, Call

I've been really, really blessed. I got to perform on stage with Bob Dylan. I've gotten to sing with Mick Jagger.
Sheryl Crow

Blessed, Stage, Sing

You listen to Bob Dylan and you can't help but think of the 60s, it's very relational and if artists are true artists and not just mere musicians they need to be truthful because the music doesn't come from them it comes from the universe and it's to be shared. At best, we're skilled presenters, and I say that at best.
Serj Tankian

Music, Best, True

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

Between, Early, Search

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

Creative, Tortured, Bob

I didn't sound anything like Capote at the screen test. It was more like Bob Dylan. In his early years. With the flu.
Toby Jones

Early, Test, Sound

I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan.
Bradley Whitford

Comedy, Fan, Sketch

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

Love, Clear, Heroes

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.
Michael Stipe

Revolution, Anyone, Expect

Bob Dylan has always sealed his decisions with the unexplainable. His motives for withholding the release of the magnificent 'Basement Tapes' will be as forever obscure as Brian Wilson's reasons for the destruction of the tapes for 'Smile.'
Jon Landau

Smile, Decisions, Forever

Bob Dylan may be the Charlie Chaplin of rock n' roll. Both men are regarded as geniuses by their entire audience. Both were proclaimed revolutionaries for their early work and subjected to exhaustive attack when later works were thought to be inferior. Both developed their art without so much as a nodding glance toward their peers.
Jon Landau

Bob Dylan was the source of pop music's unpredictability in the Sixties. Never as big a record-seller as commonly imagined, his importance was first aesthetic and social, and then as an influence.
Jon Landau

Music, Big, Social

Bob Dylan is out of the mentorship of Allen Ginsberg.
Peter Fonda

Bob, Allen, Dylan

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

Him, Hold, Buying

People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there's a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up.
P. J. Harvey

Life, Music, Country

Bob Dylan has a way with words that simply blows me away. When he forgets his lyrics he just makes up new ones on the spot, that is what I called talented!
Gavin Rossdale

Words, Away, Makes

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.
David Geffen

Life, Money, Truth

The most memorable moment was playing drums with Bob Dylan.
Jenna Elfman

Moment, Playing, Memorable

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

Playing, Mess, Rhythm

Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won't bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say that I heard his records at a very young age and I still listen to all his records.
Frank Black

Age, Great, Him

The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.
Jackson Browne

Different, Write, Times

I was really lost for a while in my teens. I was angry. But when I found music - Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell - it was a new discovery. It was a door to this other world where I wanted to be.
Ray LaMontagne

Music, Angry, Lost

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