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.

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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."

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I can't stand Bob Dylan.

I loved working with Bob Dylan.

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