Bob Dylan, a Nobel musician

Regarding “Coverage of Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize” [Oct. 15]. In the immediate wake of the most-deserved Nobel Prize announcement, Randy Lewis and Mikael Wood delivered great pieces on Dylan. One often-overlooked and perhaps surprising aspect of Mr. Dylan’s enormous influence was on Brian Wilson, who almost certainly brought in Van Dyke Parks as a lyricist inspired by and challenged by Dylan. David Leaf Los Angeles

If Jim Morrison was alive, I wonder what he would think about rock’s secondgreatest poet receiving the Nobel prize and playing Las Vegas? Dan Salomon Mission Hills

I laughed out loud (which doesn’t happen very often). All of us who lived through the 1960s loved Bob Dylan at some level or another. I’ve seen reporters, music critics, etc., asking about what this lyric or that lyric meant. I remember him laughing and saying,

“They don’t mean anything, stop wasting your time trying to figure out what any of them means!” This says it all as far as I’m concerned. We are awarding the Nobel Prize in literature to a song writer who admits it’s a bunch of gibberish. Tim Buchanan Alhambra