Dylan Quotes

Somehow you can tell the difference when a song is written just to get on the radio and when what someone does is their whole life. That comes through in Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson. There is no separating their life from their music.

Dylan doesn't have to make Blonde On Blonde every time.

Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Outer Limits series. It was sort of the two hour pilot movie.

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.

The most memorable moment was playing drums with Bob Dylan.

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

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.

In other words, I'd say the whole story of Bob Dylan is one man's search for God. The turns and the steps he takes to find God are his business. I think he went to a study group at the Vineyard, and it created a lot of excitement.

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

My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation.

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

When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks.

After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid.

I think for writers who write that kind of stuff, they want to make changes. Look at Kris Kristofferson and Dylan. I mean, whole generations come along liking that stuff and that's great.

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!

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.

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

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

Sometimes you just can't walk away from films you're offered, like the Dylan Thomas thing.

I like men who are very cool but who are also so brilliant that they are almost insane. Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits - men who would be flipping burgers if they hadn't found an outlet for their brilliant mind-sets.

The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.

Bob Dylan is out of the mentorship of Allen Ginsberg.

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

Then about 12 years ago it dawned on me that folk music - the music of Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs, early Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Pete Seeger - could be as heavy as anything that comes through a Marshall stack. The combination of three chords and the right lyrical couplet can be as heavy as anything in the Metallica catalogue.

Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated.

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

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

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.

What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk music's always done. I'm not going to sing about ploughing, but I'll write a song that sounds like it should be about ploughing.

Actually, I never liked Dylan's kind of music before; I always thought he sounded just like Yogi Bear.