Quotes About Dylan

Let me guess," I said. "This is about Schrödinger's cat." "I'm impressed, Dylan," she replied with a smile. "Hey, I watched The Big Bang Theory.

My favorite genre is definitely romantic comedy. I love 'When Harry Met Sally.'

My favorite Bob Dylan record is the very first one where he sings one Bob Dylan song and the rest of them are his interpretations of the Dust Bowl-era folk songs, or even going back as far as the mass influx of people coming into the U.S. during the gold rush. His interpretations of those songs are incredible.

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

The audiences used to say, 'Are you a Donovan fan or a Dylan fan?' It was all very naive, really.

I've always been fascinated by Baretta and Donny Brasco, and other undercover cops in movies.

I'm a huge Springsteen fan, and yet if either he or Bob Dylan had to be erased from the world's hard drive, I would save Bob Dylan's work for sure - he's the greater talent, and by leaps and bounds and skyscrapers and rocket blasts. But Bob Dylan is an alien to his public.

And Flock Rule Number Two is, Don't argue with Max or you'll live to regret it. I spun and stomped out to the clearing, turning back for one last jab at Dylan. And by the way, you clearly DON'T know me better than Fang does. Do you see Fang arguing with me? No, you do not. Fang rolled his eyes.

Yeah, and so Max and Dylan are supposed to, like, go to Germany and have kids together, I heard Gazzy say. My eyes popped open and I bolted upright. What? Fang said, his voice icy. Gazzy! I yelled. Wide blue eyes looked at me in surprise, then back at Fang's stoic face. Oh. Was I not supposed to say anything? Gazzy asked.

Fang looked at the newest bird kid. Dylan was an inch or two taller than he was, and somewhat heavier built, though he still had the long, lean look of a human-avian hybrid-you couldn't make bricks fly.

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.

When I can focus on something like guitar or painting, I do. I started painting people I admire, like Kerouac, Bob Dylan, Nelson Algren, Marlon Brando, Patti Smith, my girl, my kids.

Steve had a TEAC reel-to-reel and massive quantities of Dylan bootlegs," Kottke recalled. "He was both really cool and high-tech.

We'd buy brochures of Dylan lyrics and stay up late interpreting them. Dylan's words struck chords of creative thinking.

like it. It sounded almost disco, and he gloomily argued that Dylan had been going downhill since Blood on the Tracks. So Hertzfeld moved the needle to the last song on the album, "Dark Eyes," which was a simple acoustic number featuring Dylan

The glorious, unending laps players take around refrains in Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" release even more energy than they gather up; the more they hug the song's corners to make sense of Dylan's casual threats, the more his disdain hovers over them, tantalizingly out of reach. In such defining moments, a stylistic genie got released from its bottle, and many found new places for themselves just by chasing some of the same riffs atop their own beats.

Dylan's relationship with Johnny Cash was the biggest influence on Nashville in my lifetime - they opened up country music.

If you feel yourself responding cynically when someone relates that 'Dylan's returned to protest songs' as if it's exciting news, it just may be that your instincts are in healthy working order.

What she seemed to mean was that knowing how much I loved Dylan, she was embarking on a plan to see to it I would not be able to see her anymore. Dylan's feelings wouldn't matter. The loss of her father, whom she loved, wouldn't matter. She would be used to exact revenge.

Do you really want to deprive Dylan of her father to punish me? Are there no limits to your vengeance?

The doctor asked Dylan if she had been abused. Dylan said no. Mia took her "for ice cream" and returned to the doctor's office, where the seven-year-old had somehow changed her story.

There's been a streak of vengeance and carnage in all of Dylan's records except for the Christmas record, since 2001, since 'Love and Theft.' Particularly on 'Modern Times' in 2006.

The vampire burned up?" Dylan asked, his eyes lit with humor. "You mean, he doesn't sparkle in the sunlight?

With a thick note of disbelief in her voice, Jilly said, 'You went through the wall to California?' [Dylan] 'Yeah. Why not? Where'd you think we went-Narnia? Oz? Middle Earth? California's weirder than any of those places, anyway.' Page 246