1.
Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
Don Van Vliet
2.
I am like a chameleon, influenced by whatever's going on. If Elvis can do it, I can do it. If the Everly Brothers can do it, me and Paul can. Same with Dylan.
John Lennon
3.
To me, Godard did to movies what Bob Dylan did to music: they both revolutionized their forms.
Quentin Tarantino
4.
Dylan is so brilliant. To me, he makes William Shakespeare look like Billy Joel.
George Harrison
5.
You could live in Winnipeg a thousand years and not meet Ringo, Paul McCartney, or Bob Dylan.
Burton Cummings
6.
Somebody had to be Bob Dylan. I guess I was best equipped to do the job.
Bob Dylan
7.
I'll never be Bob Dylan. He's the master.
Neil Young
8.
I'm Dylan. I'm so cool. I want to date myself, but I don't know how! You want to date me instead? You're so lucky!
Rick Riordan
9.
From the moment [Bob] Dylan arrived as a songwriter, he was [so] much better than everybody else around.
Steve Earle
10.
My love was Bob Dylan, but as I got older I realized a good ballad was a good ballad.
Bonnie Raitt
11.
I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.
Jack Prelutsky
12.
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
13.
[Bob Dylan] was rarely tender and seldom reached out to anticipate another's needs.
Bob Dylan
14.
Most all of the writers I admired when I was in my teens and twenties died young. Fitzgerald lived the longest. He was 44. Dylan Thomas was 39. And then once you're approaching 40, you suddenly think, "Well, maybe I would like to live longer than Fitzgerald or Thomas."
Jay McInerney
15.
Dylan doesn't have to make Blonde On Blonde every time.
Warren Zevon
16.
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
17.
...You couldn't help being influenced by Dylan.
Al Kooper
18.
Sometimes you just can't walk away from films you're offered, like the Dylan Thomas thing.
Dougray Scott
19.
I love that Bob Dylan asked me to be in the first movie he wrote.
Val Kilmer
21.
And you don't want to just totally mess up the rhythm when you're playing with Bob Dylan.
Jenna Elfman
23.
I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.
Iris DeMent
24.
Dylan Thomas, asked what he thought of Welsh Nationalism, replied in three words, two of which were 'Welsh Nationalism.'
Avram Davidson
25.
I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him.
Robyn Hitchcock
26.
Producing Bob Dylan was pretty much a spectator sport.
Al Kooper
27.
When I was playing with Bob Dylan in, like, 1966, I was, like, 20 years old.
Robbie Robertson
28.
[Bob Dylan] is a preacher but also a sinner; a poet but also a pitchman; authentic all-American but also invented persona.
Jay Michaelson
29.
Back seat drivers don’t know the feel of the wheel but they sho’ know how to make a fuss" Bob Dylan/Bonnie Raitt, “Let’s Keep It Between Us,” 1982
Bob Dylan
30.
Bob Dylan was uncomfortable being known as just a protest singer. He wanted to go back into himself and do what he wanted to do when he wanted to do it.
Nat Hentoff
33.
Without music, there is not the faintest chance [Bob Dylan] words would now be garlanded as they are.
David Bennun
34.
Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.
Steve Earle
35.
but right now it's Bob Dylan Bob Dylan Bob Dylan all the way.
Charles Bukowski
37.
I'm not Welsh and I didn't know that much about Dylan Thomas , and I saw that he's a huge icon of Welsh-ness.
Tom Hollander
38.
I think The Beatles are the lasting influence on me, even more so than Dylan.
Robyn Hitchcock
39.
Musically Bob [Dylan] is a primitive. He's not a Gershwin, or somebody that uses eloquent music terms.
Al Kooper
40.
She smiled, turning toward Alek. "You don't know what a friend you have in Dylan.
Scott Westerfeld
41.
I'm always looking for overlooked post-Dylan singer-songwriter records from the '70s.
Noah Baumbach
42.
I'll marry Bob Dylan, I'll f - k Dillon Francis, and I'll kill Matt Dillon , because I don't know him.
David Macklovitch
43.
Bob Dylan led me to this kind of music - and it's his and ours. And it's nobody else's.
Jakob Dylan
44.
I've always been amused by [Bob] Dylan; I don't think he's been amused by me.
Nat Hentoff