Richard Harmon Quotes

Definitely I grew up listening to Joni Mitchell, and I think she is a wonderful writer, so she is probably part of me.

I love Bob Dylan. Who doesn't? He tapped into some kind of vein and it keeps on keeping on. There's nobody like him. He's unique, and just... way out cool.

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

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.

If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

Bowie's been a huge influence on me.

Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali.

Bob Dylan was the source of pop music's unpredictability in the Sixties. Never as big a record-seller as commonly imagined, his importance was first aesthetic and social, and then as an influence.

I think everyone mentions Bob Dylan, but he's someone I just admire so much as a songwriter. I think people write songs, and then there's Bob Dylan songs. He's one step ahead of just everybody else.

Sly Stone made such a huge contribution to the good feeling in the universe, and I love him as a singer.

I thought he was the greatest thing. Bob Dylan.

I think the first older artist I related to and loved was Bowie.

Elvis may have been my first hero, but you couldn't relate to him.

Prince played a big influence on my style.

Bob Dylan is someone that - I don't care how long into the future it is - somebody will still play Bob Dylan. He will always survive.

I've only written 30 songs or something. Dylan's written over 500 songs. There's no comparison. He's the Shakespeare of rock 'n' roll and popular music.

Bob Dylan is like an alien on this earth, and I love him! I cried when I saw him play live because I was so close to him.

I look up to people like Michael Jackson because he set up pop culture.

Stevie Wonder was a big influence in my life.

Elvis is everywhere. Elvis is everything. Elvis is everybody. Elvis is still The King.

I have no doubt that if I met Bob Dylan, it would be disappointing - and annoying to him. But that's why I like Bob Dylan.

I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous king. He was the king of rock and roll, will always be. He's whats made it possible for everyone to be performers and to do the things they do now.

When people ask me who I'd want to have dinner with, dead or alive, I always say, 'John Lennon.' I just feel that he was an artist who was, in his own way, committed to wholeness and authenticity in a not dissimilar way that I am years later.

I grew up as a kid looking at artists like David Bowie and Prince; I really admired them.

I did want to be Joni Mitchell for quite a long time.