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.
Quotes about dylans (16 Quotes)
I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan's look good.
He's not afraid to take a shot. Dylan's only a sophomore and he's gotten used to his role as a player off the bench. He takes the big shots, he gets to the rim and isn't afraid to get fouled. It just happens that his two best games of the year have come off the bench against North Branford.
We were able to convince both Dylans management and Sony BMG that this was a perfect project for us. . . . We think (theyve) done a terrific job of doing a total Bob Dylan promotion. It will be a win-win for everybody involved.
In The New York Times, John Rockwell praised the songs as poetry that attains universality. ... You owe it to yourself to buy this record. ... Born to Run' breathed with the same kind of discovery that made Elvis Presley's Sun Sessions' and Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited' the two most important American rock albums before it.
The prolific generosity of Dylan's talent down the years has been a wonder to behold. Industry... is itself the artist's portion, ... There is no question that quantity - added, of course, to genius - is what separates major writers from minor ones.
Now it's time to look back, ... Maybe it's like his 'Love Theft' Dylan's latest studio recording kinda looks back musically.
When we do a content deal we have a rough idea of how many new subscribers it might attract. But mostly were committed to providing subscribers and potential subscribers with the kind of program they cant find anywhere else, and Bob Dylans new show is a perfect example of that.
Dylan's fearless. He's not afraid to miss.
Actually, I never liked Dylan's kind of music before; I always thought he sounded just like Yogi Bear.
He was a rap producer, and then he was producing rock with some alternative bands. I just didn't understand how I fit into that thing. But Bob Dylan's manager, who I know, called me and said, 'I know Rick very well. You should talk to him. He has no agend
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.
To the extreme. Dylan was the coolest thing in the country. If you were a young person at that age, maybe you don't go for Dylan's gravelly style voice, but who he was and how different and bold his lyrics were, and his look, that was the closest thing the record business had to James Dean.
Dylan's is the kind of model we envisioned, and in the same way we see this book bringing out the distinct voice of Eric Clapton. He will be intensely involved in the book writing process.
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.
But, in the end, even a song that's as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wouldn't get up and sing that now, whereas some of Bob Dylan's love songs that were contemporary with that, like say Girl from the North Country, you can still get up an play now.