Dylan Quotes

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

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.

To me, Godard did to movies what Bob Dylan did to music: they both revolutionized their forms.

Dylan is so brilliant. To me, he makes William Shakespeare look like Billy Joel.

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!

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

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

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

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."

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

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.

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

My love was Bob Dylan, but as I got older I realized a good ballad was a good ballad.

I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.

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

Producing Bob Dylan was pretty much a spectator sport.

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

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

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

I can't stand Bob Dylan.

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

I loved working with Bob Dylan.

I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.

Dylan Thomas, asked what he thought of Welsh Nationalism, replied in three words, two of which were 'Welsh Nationalism.'

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

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

I've always been amused by [Bob] Dylan; I don't think he's been amused by me.

When I was playing with Bob Dylan in, like, 1966, I was, like, 20 years old.

[Bob Dylan] is a preacher but also a sinner; a poet but also a pitchman; authentic all-American but also invented persona.

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 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.

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

I am a Bob Dylan fan.

Bob Dylan is the Jew of all time.

but right now it's Bob Dylan Bob Dylan Bob Dylan all the way.

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

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.

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

I think The Beatles are the lasting influence on me, even more so than Dylan.

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

She smiled, turning toward Alek. "You don't know what a friend you have in Dylan.

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

I'll marry Bob Dylan, I'll f - k Dillon Francis, and I'll kill Matt Dillon , because I don't know him.