Willem Dafoe Quotes

Bob Dylan's not a hype and a haircut: he's the real thing.

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

I thought he was the greatest thing. Bob Dylan.

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.

Elvis is this thing, this commodity, and people forget that he was a real person.

Bob Dylan is my idol. Everybody has that person growing up that made them see things a little differently than they did before, Dylan is that guy for me. My dad gave me the 'Blonde on Blonde' album on cassette tape when I was seven or eight. It took me a while to get into Dylan's vibe, but once I did, I never looked back.

I don't think that I want to meet any of the icons. I don't think that anybody can quite live up to your expectations.

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

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.

I loved working with Bob Dylan.

I would say, from an all-around point of view, Bruce Springsteen is one of the two great poet lords of America, Bob Dylan, coming out of the music world, the two of them.

That's who I wanted to be like was Bob Dylan.

Bob Dylan - I will listen to any of his songs over and over.

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.

If they made a movie about Bob Dylan, I would love to play a young Bob Dylan; I mean, I've got the wild hair.

The newspapers had described me as the Jagger of the Aga. It wasn't hard living up to the reputation.

I've always loved Bob Dylan.

It's so sad, you get less starstruck when you start realizing that it's not a big deal.

I love Bob Dylan. 'Blood on the Tracks' is one of my top five records.

I find the most normal things about famous people to be the most fascinating.

There are so many myths out there about Marianne Faithfull, I had to, um, detach. But I can turn it on because Marianne Faithfull is really an attitude, you know.

It is difficult to take in that your idols are in the same place as you are.

I've always had a reluctance to meet my heroes.

It gets old, all of it. People putting a lot of hopes and dreams on you. Telling you they put money on you, and 'you're my kid's idol.'

It must be tiring being Bob Dylan for the past 50 years. People act like he's not even human, which must be hard work. Every room he walks into just goes quiet.