Dylan Quotes - page 6

Once I'd heard 'Modern Times' by Bob Dylan, it really changed the way I wanted to make records. (Elton John)
I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two. View quote
Henry Rollins
My musical influence is really from my father. He was a DJ in college. My parents met at New York University. So he listened to, you know, Motown, and he listened to Bob Dylan. He listened to Grateful Dead and Rolling Stones, but he also listened to reggae music. And he collected vinyl. View quote
Talib Kweli
Bob Dylan continues to release odd and unsettling records, and to do odd and unsettling things on stage. So the term 'still' seems meaningless to me. But the real answer is simple: I listen to Bob Dylan for pleasure more than I listen to anyone else for pleasure. View quote
Greil Marcus
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. View quote
Jackson Browne
Dylan can do no wrong. View quote
Warren Zevon
It's not name dropping, but not many people can say, like me, that they spent the day with the likes of Francis Bacon or that boring drunk Dylan Thomas. You don't forget things like that. View quote
Jeffrey Bernard
I think I'm the oldest new Bob Dylan around. I predate Bruce Springsteen, Steve Forbat and John Prine. I was probably the first of the new Bob Dylans. View quote
Loudon Wainwright III
The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories. View quote
Ed Sheeran
Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me musically. View quote
Ed Sheeran
Forty years ago, when Dylan Thomas read, he spent half the program reciting other poets' work. Hardly a self-effacing man, he was nevertheless humble before his art. Today most readings are celebrations less of poetry than of the author's ego. No wonder the audience for such events usually consists entirely of poets, would-be poets, and friends of the author. (Dana Gioia)
Well, I think it is accidental. It's just something I started doing naturally and it had a lot to do with reading. I think that Dylan Thomas, his prose and poetry, was a big influence on me. Just his use of words... He would use so many odd words: like these three- and four-syllable words that you just don't normally hear. And they're not used in a manner that sets the text apart from the reader. Rather they're drawing the reader in. It's entirely based on the alliteration of the word itself-onomatopoeia and things like that. I feel like a lot of the words I use don't stick out in the song because they keep the feel of the song in mind. The rhythm-that's the primary thing. They're put in there for rhythm and alliteration as much as they are for meaning. And as long as they are not used extraneously, they're real lightning rods for people listening to the lyrics. If the words are really helping out the rhythm of the song then all they're going to do is draw the listener in even more. View quote
Colin Meloy
To us, there was Bob Dylan, and there was dad. As for what he meant to other people, that was never glorified in our house. There were no accolades there, no gold records. View quote
Jakob Dylan
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. View quote
Patti Smith
I'll never be Bob Dylan. He's the master. View quote
Neil Young
Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you're not busy being born, you're busy dying. View quote
Walter Isaacson
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. View quote
Kurt Cobain
It can never be again! Everyone always talks about a good thing coming to an end, as if life was over. But I'll be 40 when this interview comes out. Paul is 38. Elton John, Bob Dylan - we're all relatively young people. The game isn't over yet. Everyone talks in terms of the last record or the last Beatle concert - but, God willing, there are another 40 years of productivity to go. I'm not judging whether "I Am The Walrus" is better or worse than "Imagine." It is for others to judge. I am doing it. I do. I don't stand back and judge - I do. View quote
John Lennon
She can turn anything into gold with that voice, here's the thing: if you speak to a good singing teacher about great opera singers, they will talk about consistency of tone. Or there's a book by Alfred Tomatis about why some people like certain people's voices and other people hate them, like Bob Dylan or me or whoever, some people say, 'Oh, I hate that voice', so there's a thing about people's frequency responses, what they are pleased by. Rihanna has this thick tone, so it's very hard to annoy anybody. View quote
Chris Martin