" The country's most creative troubador ." ( 1964 )

" Dylan was a revolutionary ...
the way that Elvis freed your body...
Dylan freed your mind ... "

" That boy's got a voice .
Maybe he won't make it in his
writing , but he can sing it . " ( 1962 )

" Most music criticism is in the 19th century ...there's no concession to the fact thatDylan might be a more sophisticated singer that Witney Houston ,
that he's probably the most sophisticated singer we've had in a generation .
Nobody is identifying our popular singers like a Matisse or Picasso .
Dylan's a Picasso - that exuberance , range, and assimilation of the
whole history of music . "

" The only way to explain his contribution
is by playing his songs . '

" Unlike other people ,
about whom I think I have some kind of sense ,
I never understood him at all . Not a tweak . "

" Dylan creates a kind of music
that plants a seed in your mind
and then you have to hear it several times . "

" Bob Dylan's one of the greatest blues singers
of the western world ;
ancient art , on-the-spot improvisation ,
mind quickness ,
endless variation , classical formulae ,
prophetic vision , mighty wind-horse . "

" I never showed any interest
outside of the blues ,
until I heard Bob Dylan . "

" This man can rhyme the tick of time . The edge of pain . The what of sane "

" Dylan's an extraordinary man .
I don't know if he's going to sell ,
but he has something profound to say . " ( 1962 )

" If there was one artist's career
that I would love to have ,
it would be Dylan's . "