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I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan's look good. -- Bill Walton
Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that. -- Steve Earle
If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself. -- Bob Dylan
I'll never be Bob Dylan. He's the master. -- Neil Young
I'm a catalogue artist: I compete with Bob Dylan. -- Courtney Love
Bob Dylan is out of the mentorship of Allen Ginsberg. -- Peter Fonda
I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan. -- Bradley Whitford
Sometimes you just can't walk away from films you're offered, like the Dylan Thomas thing. -- Dougray Scott
I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe. -- Jack Prelutsky
And you don't want to just totally mess up the rhythm when you're playing with Bob Dylan. -- Jenna Elfman
Actually, I never liked Dylan's kind of music before; I always thought he sounded just like Yogi Bear. -- Mick Ronson
Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs. -- Captain Beefheart
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
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
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
Bob Dylan's first couple of records in the 60's weren't considered cover records, but he only wrote one or two original songs on each album. -- John Mellencamp
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
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
The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same. -- John Thorn
I was a huge Beatles fan. The Stones, Dylan. Later on, I got into Stevie Wonder, and Bill Withers - he's one of my heroes. Al Green, too. -- Adam Levine
The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as the songs of Homer. -- Robert Fitzgerald
But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan's beard look good. -- Bill Walton
I love Bob Dylan. Who doesn't? He tapped into some kind of vein and it keeps on keeping on. There's nobody like him. He's unique, and just... way out cool. -- David Lynch
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. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
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. -- Beau Bridges
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. -- Tom Chapin
Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so I could have a career if I wanted. -- Kurt Cobain
It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing. Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me musically. -- Ed Sheeran
In some of the greatest recordings ever made, the performance is a part of the recording. Dylan's 'Rainy Day Women No. 12 and 35' is all about the esthetic of that performance. You can hear the room. -- Moby
Within the microcosm of a film you get drawn to people. There are certain projects you care enormously about, and 'The Edge Of Love' was one because I was portraying a great hero of mine, Dylan Thomas. -- Matthew Rhys
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
I've had mentors who were kind of the troubadour singer-songwriters, like Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Neil Young, and that's just what I've always liked - people who would talk real honestly about their lives and their circumstance. -- Jewel
Music television is all about the media-oriented version of what it is to be a rock star; it's not about what Bob Dylan or Jimi Hendrix were about - which included great images, sure, but they had spiritual and political and revolutionary content, too. -- Patti Smith
I taught myself to play the guitar by listening to Paul Simon records, working it out note by note. He is an incredibly intelligent musician. He's not someone who has a natural outpouring of melody like McCartney or Dylan, who are just terribly prolific with musical ideas. -- Douglas Adams
I have Bob Dylan lyrics on my ribs. I'm a diehard Dylan fan, and my dad and I joke that if I ever met him, I'd have him sign his name right under my tattoo and then I'd run to the parlor to get his signature tattooed. -- Carly Chaikin
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. -- T Bone Burnett
It's insane that, since the Beatles and Dylan, it's assumed that all musicians should do everything themselves. It's that ridiculous, teenage idea that when Mick Jagger sings, he's telling you something about his own life. It's so arrogant to think that people would want to know about it anyway! -- Brian Eno
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
Dylan can do no wrong. -- Warren Zevon
I can't stand Bob Dylan. -- Charlotte Church
I am a Bob Dylan fan. -- Tim Kaine
I loved working with Bob Dylan. -- Benmont Tench
...You couldn't help being influenced by Dylan. -- Al Kooper
Bob Dylan is the Jew of all time. -- Guy Oseary
I'm not that kind of Bob Dylan, tortured creative. -- Ben Barnes
Producing Bob Dylan was pretty much a spectator sport. -- Al Kooper
Dylan doesn't have to make Blonde On Blonde every time. -- Warren Zevon
Forever Young, by Dylan, is one of my favorite songs. -- Levon Helm
The most memorable moment was playing drums with Bob Dylan. -- Jenna Elfman
[Bob Dylan] is a worthy laureate for the Nobel Prize. -- Sjon
I have three dads: my biological father, God and Bob Dylan. -- Jack White
I'm always looking for overlooked post-Dylan singer-songwriter records from the '70s. -- Noah Baumbach
Bob Dylan is as influential as any artist that there has been. -- Robbie Robertson
[Bob] Dylan would cut out phrases from magazines and then paste them together. -- Jay Michaelson
Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you're not busy being born, you're busy dying. -- Walter Isaacson
I admire those old road dogs, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan. That's their life. -- Robbie Robertson
Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing. -- Madeleine Peyroux
Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it's not just a record, it's a movement. -- Seth Godin
True pain teaches us to grow. You aren't finished yet. Dylan needs you. -- Rebecca Salas
but right now it's Bob Dylan Bob Dylan Bob Dylan all the way. -- Charles Bukowski
Bob Dylan truly is a poet whose song is part of the poetry. -- Richard F. Thomas
I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him. -- Robyn Hitchcock
Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start. -- Steve Earle
Dylan is so brilliant. To me, he makes William Shakespeare look like Billy Joel. -- George Harrison
When I was playing with Bob Dylan in, like, 1966, I was, like, 20 years old. -- Robbie Robertson
I love that Bob Dylan asked me to be in the first movie he wrote. -- Val Kilmer
She smiled, turning toward Alek. "You don't know what a friend you have in Dylan. -- Scott Westerfeld
I've always been amused by [Bob] Dylan; I don't think he's been amused by me. -- Nat Hentoff
I think The Beatles are the lasting influence on me, even more so than Dylan. -- Robyn Hitchcock
Well, I love Bob Dylan, let's make that clear. He's one of my musical heroes. -- Tim Heidecker
Dylan Jerome," the lawyer admits, "wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him. -- Jodi Picoult
I'm unhappy as Dylan Thomas was, because I'm not, but I've had my brushes with sadness. -- Tom Hollander
Folk music had long been political but [Bob] Dylan's poetry took it to a new level. -- Jay Michaelson
His smile was like a Dylan album and a cup of coffee on a sunny afternoon -- Jen Archer Wood
Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry. -- Seamus Heaney
The internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on. -- Jon Bon Jovi
Musically Bob [Dylan] is a primitive. He's not a Gershwin, or somebody that uses eloquent music terms. -- Al Kooper
Bob Dylan will be thirty years old this month..." "That's the most depressing thing I've ever heard. -- Charles M. Schulz
I've always loved the fact that Bob's [Dylan] been able to sustain his mystery over 50 or 60 years. -- Bruce Springsteen
To me, Godard did to movies what Bob Dylan did to music: they both revolutionized their forms. -- Quentin Tarantino
I think Bob Dylan's a good songwriter. I think he's the best songwriter in the world probably. -- Chrissie Hynde
You could live in Winnipeg a thousand years and not meet Ringo, Paul McCartney, or Bob Dylan. -- Burton Cummings
The early Bob Dylan was compulsively drawn to the conflict between stability and the search for immortality. -- Jon Landau
My favorite Dylan song? I think it's 'Just Like a Woman.' It always makes me cry. -- Bob Saget
From the moment [Bob] Dylan arrived as a songwriter, he was [so] much better than everybody else around. -- Steve Earle
Courtney Love's name should be right next to Bob Dylan when they say best lyricist of all time. -- Linda Perry
I'm doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It's a wonderful script. -- Dougray Scott
Without music, there is not the faintest chance [Bob Dylan] words would now be garlanded as they are. -- David Bennun
The current tax code is harder to understand than Bob Dylan reading Finnegans Wake in a wind tunnel. -- Dennis Miller
Bob Dylan said, "The executioner's face is always well-hidden". That's the problem: The cross pulls that hood off. -- Robert Barron
In late [Bob] Dylan, music is the key to immortality, even though the summer days are long gone. -- Jay Michaelson
If you going to live by a certain code - as Bob Dylan said, you gotta serve somebody. -- Thomas F. Wilson
Once I'd heard 'Modern Times' by Bob Dylan, it really changed the way I wanted to make records. -- Elton John
My musical tastes go from Zeppelin to Bob Dylan to Kanye West and Lil' Wayne. Anything modern and progressive. -- Josh Hartnett
Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs. -- Captain Beefheart
Except in these latter-day songs, [Bob] Dylan is a grizzled old prophet who's already been to hell and back. -- Jay Michaelson
Creativity is the life force that Dylan Thomas called 'the force that through the green fuse drives the flower. -- Julia Cameron
My love was Bob Dylan, but as I got older I realized a good ballad was a good ballad. -- Bonnie Raitt
I guess I haven't talked to Bob Dylan since before then [interview to Rolling Stones]. I follow his career. -- Nat Hentoff
I really believe that Bob Dylan and others have speeded up the changes. Pacifism has found a voice at last. -- David Bowie
When I heard his first songs, Dylan was answering certain questions that I had all my life been asking myself. -- Nana Mouskouri
Bob Dylan's Christianity has been allusive, idiosyncratic, and never the sort to place him on anyone's side in any Kulturkampf. -- Christopher Caldwell
Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me musically. -- Ed Sheeran
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
Dylan Thomas, asked what he thought of Welsh Nationalism, replied in three words, two of which were 'Welsh Nationalism.' -- Avram Davidson
Religion is commodified; the educational system is a sham; and yet,[Bob] Dylan wonders, everyone has to stand naked sometime. -- Jay Michaelson
But can a song stop a war? If Bob Marley and Bob Dylan couldn't do it, it can't be done. -- Henry Rollins
[Bob] Dylan is a contemporary Don Quixote, at once besotted by the promise of America and yet also undermining it. -- Jay Michaelson
Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes. -- Pete Townshend
I think it was Columbia politics, Columbia Records politics that, that, Tom Wilson left [Bob Dylan] after "Like A Rolling Stone". -- Al Kooper
[Bob Dylan] is a preacher but also a sinner; a poet but also a pitchman; authentic all-American but also invented persona. -- Jay Michaelson
I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash. -- Iris Dement
I've met Bob Dylan's bodyguards, and if Steve Earle thinks he can stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table, he's sadly mistaken, -- Townes Van Zandt
I started writing when I was 17. I got an acoustic guitar for my birthday after I discovered Bob Dylan and James Taylor. -- Jason Reeves
When I was a teenager, I had trouble getting a boyfriend, so I imagined Arthur Rimbaud or Bob Dylan as my boyfriend. -- Patti Smith
For Dylan, it seems, life is always the next gig. Changing pace and location are essential to his survival as an artist. -- Douglas Brinkley
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
If I had an axe on the evening at Newport when [Dylan] broke out the electric guitar, I'd have cut his cable. -- Pete Seeger
When I hit 11 so did the careers of Dylan and the Stones. A year later it was the Who and the Kinks. -- Bob Geldof
As a composer, Dylan now fits comfortably alongside George Gershwin or Irving Berlin, though he grumpily refuses to wear any man's collar. -- Douglas Brinkley

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