Blues songs, like folk songs, are a continuous stream, and catching the continuities and thefts is part of what puts meaning and complexity into it -…

- Richard F. Thomas

The thing about Bob Dylan's performative essence is that he keeps singing these old songs as well as the new songs, and the old songs become new with…

- Richard F. Thomas

One of the powerful functions of a library-any library-lies in its ability to take us away from worlds that are familiar and comfortable and into one…

- Richard F. Thomas

Bob Dylan truly is a poet whose song is part of the poetry.

- Richard F. Thomas

Some artists respond to critics' questions about their art. I think Bob Dylan would alwys refuse to respond to questions of that sort, he always has.

- Richard F. Thomas

Bob Dylan tends not to have geographical or chronological markers that tie a song to any specific context, so they stay alive, stay relevant.

- Richard F. Thomas

Bob Dylan tells interviewers what he wants to tell them, not what they necessarily want to know. His responses are really part of the art, and often …

- Richard F. Thomas

There are some singer-songwriters who start out as poets. So someone like Leonard Cohen wrote and published poetry in the early 60s, but then started…

- Richard F. Thomas