Dylan wins Nobel Prize in Literature

Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize in Literature.  Read his lyrics and his book, Chronicles Volume One and you'll see why. While his music helps put across his poetry (much as Elizabethan stagecraft helped convey Shakespeare's) his musical sensibilities are primitive, sometimes very effectively so. I don't see how this discussion veered off onto Dylan's vocal abilities or guitar skills. There is no Nobel Prize in guitar playing. If there were, Jeff Beck would win that.

Mapman, you forgot Louis Armstrong. In terms of influence alone, the rest of your list would not exist without Armstrong.