[Bob Dylan] is a preacher but also a sinner; a poet but also a pitchman; authentic all-American but also invented persona. — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
[Bob] Dylan is a contemporary Don Quixote, at once besotted by the promise of America and yet also undermining it. — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
Except in these latter-day songs, [Bob] Dylan is a grizzled old prophet who's already been to hell and back. — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
More of the symbols are stock (does [Bob] Dylan really have hogs lying out in the mud somewhere? I doubt it), but… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
[Bob] Dylan, like Johnny Cash and only a handful of others, simultaneously embodies the American dream and the harsh wake-up call that… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
While [Bob] Dylan's folk fans thought he was selling out [in 1965-67], actually Dylan was lodging a stronger, deeper critique of American… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
Religion is commodified; the educational system is a sham; and yet,[Bob] Dylan wonders, everyone has to stand naked sometime. — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
In late [Bob] Dylan, music is the key to immortality, even though the summer days are long gone. — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
Weirdly, by the way,[Bob] Dylan also managed to write several beautiful love songs, like "To Make You Feel My Love" (covered by… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
I suspect many readers might associate [Bob Dylan] with one of the shortest phases of his career, the time from 1963 to… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
Unlike many Sixties rockers,[Bob] Dylan sang about getting old, about broken dreams. His return to roots music pointed the way for many… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
The most recent incarnation of [Bob] Dylan has been the traveling journeyman/ charlatan who sings roots music, snarls dark lyrics that make… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
After an initial solo album in which the young [Bob] Dylan was just finding his voice (i.e., reinventing himself from the middle-class… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
Funny thing about Bob Dylan, the newest Nobel laureate in literature: He's been a master of self-invention for more than 50 years,… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
The best songs of this [modern] period - the apocalyptic "High Water," for example - return [Bob] Dylan to where he was… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
In the meantime [1963-65], [Bob] Dylan was writing some of the best love songs in the genre, like "Girl From the North… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
There has been a ton of excellent music in this period (along with a few misses), evoking scenes like a bar-room brawl… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
"Masters of War" [of Bob Dylan] wasn't peacenik, anti-war stuff. With its minor key and uncompromising final lines ("And I hope that… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
[Bob] Dylan would cut out phrases from magazines and then paste them together. — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
Folk music had long been political but [Bob] Dylan's poetry took it to a new level. — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
[Bob] Dylan's many quotations from classic American roots music (that song is from an album aptly titled Love and Theft) join the… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
In honor of his new Nobel, this hard-core Dylanophile wants to share with you a song or two from each of his… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
Probably the high-watermark of [Bob] Dylan's career came after he plugged in his guitar ("Judas!" one fan shouted during a concert) and… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
[Bob] Dylan thus deserves the Nobel Prize, not just for "new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," as the Nobel… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
Except in these latter-day songs, [Bob] Dylan is a grizzled old prophet who's already been to hell and back. — Jay Michaelson Copy Share
The most recent incarnation of [Bob] Dylan has been the traveling journeyman/ charlatan who sings roots music, snarls dark lyrics that make "All Along… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share
We in the Jewish community are comparatively lucky. All of traditions have anti-gay pieces but the Jewish tradition doesn't have as many anti-sexuality and… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share
Probably the high-watermark of [Bob] Dylan's career came after he plugged in his guitar ("Judas!" one fan shouted during a concert) and exploded American… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share
"Masters of War" [of Bob Dylan] wasn't peacenik, anti-war stuff. With its minor key and uncompromising final lines ("And I hope that you die/And… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share
“as Krishnamurti said, “It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” — Jay Michaelson Copy Share
People should support equality because of their religion not despite it. These are the values that openness, inclusion, diversity promote. And they're directly opposed… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share
“Dukkha is not the self-inflicted stress of a technology executive; it’s the real stuff, the kind of suffering that merits the Pali word’s original… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share
Funny thing about Bob Dylan, the newest Nobel laureate in literature: He's been a master of self-invention for more than 50 years, creating personae,… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share
“It is possible to refine awareness itself so much that the emptiness of things, and the role mental construction plays, becomes a directly apprehended… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share
In late [Bob] Dylan, music is the key to immortality, even though the summer days are long gone. — Jay Michaelson Copy Share
“For the Buddha of the Pali Canon, the goal is liberation: the cessation of suffering, the end of the endless hamster-wheel of dependent origination,… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share
I suspect many readers might associate [Bob Dylan] with one of the shortest phases of his career, the time from 1963 to '65 when… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share
While [Bob] Dylan's folk fans thought he was selling out [in 1965-67], actually Dylan was lodging a stronger, deeper critique of American hypocrisy. — Jay Michaelson Copy Share
[Bob] Dylan, like Johnny Cash and only a handful of others, simultaneously embodies the American dream and the harsh wake-up call that comes after… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share
![“[Bob Dylan] is a preacher but also a sinner; a poet but also a pitchman; authentic all-American but also invented persona.” quote by Jay Michaelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/540/jay-michaelson-15590_bob_bob-dylan-is-a-preacher-but-also-a-sinne_2310439.jpg)
![“[Bob] Dylan is a contemporary Don Quixote, at once besotted by the promise of America and yet also undermining it.” quote by Jay Michaelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/486/jay-michaelson-15590_america_bob-dylan-is-a-contemporary-don-quixote_2908370.jpg)
![“Except in these latter-day songs, [Bob] Dylan is a grizzled old prophet who's already been to hell and back.” quote by Jay Michaelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fcd/jay-michaelson-15590_bob_except-in-these-latter-day-songs-bob-dyl_3830.jpg)
![“More of the symbols are stock (does [Bob] Dylan really have hogs lying out in the mud somewhere? I doubt it), but that's the point.” quote by Jay Michaelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/831/jay-michaelson-15590_bob_more-of-the-symbols-are-stock-does-bob-d_2846641.jpg)
![“[Bob] Dylan, like Johnny Cash and only a handful of others, simultaneously embodies the American dream and the harsh wake-up call that comes after it.” quote by Jay Michaelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ab/jay-michaelson-15590_american-dream_bob-dylan-like-johnny-cash-and-only-a-ha_966862.jpg)
![“While [Bob] Dylan's folk fans thought he was selling out [in 1965-67], actually Dylan was lodging a stronger, deeper critique of American hypocrisy.” quote by Jay Michaelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d9/jay-michaelson-15590_bob_while-bob-dylan-s-folk-fans-thought-he-w_747089.jpg)
![“Religion is commodified; the educational system is a sham; and yet,[Bob] Dylan wonders, everyone has to stand naked sometime.” quote by Jay Michaelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b4/jay-michaelson-15590_bob_religion-is-commodified-the-educational_1347838.jpg)
![“In late [Bob] Dylan, music is the key to immortality, even though the summer days are long gone.” quote by Jay Michaelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/845/jay-michaelson-15590_bob_in-late-bob-dylan-music-is-the-key-to-im_512439.jpg)
![“Weirdly, by the way,[Bob] Dylan also managed to write several beautiful love songs, like "To Make You Feel My Love" (covered by Adele, Garth Brooks, Billy Joel, and who knows who else) and "Most of the Time." Go figure.” quote by Jay Michaelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a2/jay-michaelson-15590_beautiful_weirdly-by-the-way-bob-dylan-also-manage_2785956.jpg)
![“I suspect many readers might associate [Bob Dylan] with one of the shortest phases of his career, the time from 1963 to '65 when he wrote his most famous "protest songs," like "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin.'"” quote by Jay Michaelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e6/jay-michaelson-15590_associates_i-suspect-many-readers-might-associate-b_746669.jpg)
![“Unlike many Sixties rockers,[Bob] Dylan sang about getting old, about broken dreams. His return to roots music pointed the way for many of his contemporaries to forsake trying to sound 'current' and to instead make music that would stand the test of time.” quote by Jay Michaelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d7/jay-michaelson-15590_bob_unlike-many-sixties-rockers-bob-dylan-sa_1263736.jpg)
![“The most recent incarnation of [Bob] Dylan has been the traveling journeyman/ charlatan who sings roots music, snarls dark lyrics that make "All Along the Watchtower" sound like a Disney tune, hosts an old-school radio show, and turns up in some unusual places, like ads for Chrysler and Victoria's…” quote by Jay Michaelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/734/jay-michaelson-15590_ads_the-most-recent-incarnation-of-bob-dylan_17700.jpg)
![“After an initial solo album in which the young [Bob] Dylan was just finding his voice (i.e., reinventing himself from the middle-class Robert Zimmerman into a pseudo-hobo Woody Guthrie), Dylan put out two acoustic albums that forever changed popular music.” quote by Jay Michaelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f5/jay-michaelson-15590_acoustics_after-an-initial-solo-album-in-which-the_1452892.jpg)
![“The best songs of this [modern] period - the apocalyptic "High Water," for example - return [Bob] Dylan to where he was in his first phase, updating and transforming American traditional music.” quote by Jay Michaelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a8/jay-michaelson-15590_apocalyptic_the-best-songs-of-this-modern-period-the_2402818.jpg)
![“In the meantime [1963-65], [Bob] Dylan was writing some of the best love songs in the genre, like "Girl From the North Country," "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright," and "It Ain't Me, Babe."” quote by Jay Michaelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/831/jay-michaelson-15590_alright_in-the-meantime-1963-65-bob-dylan-was-wr_1175901.jpg)
![“"Masters of War" [of Bob Dylan] wasn't peacenik, anti-war stuff. With its minor key and uncompromising final lines ("And I hope that you die/And your death'll come soon/ I will follow your casket/ In the pale afternoon...") this was a previously unknown hybrid of caustic political commentary and…” quote by Jay Michaelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f88/jay-michaelson-15590_afternoon_masters-of-war-of-bob-dylan-wasn-t-peace_128545.jpg)
![“[Bob] Dylan would cut out phrases from magazines and then paste them together.” quote by Jay Michaelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/361/jay-michaelson-15590_bob_bob-dylan-would-cut-out-phrases-from-mag_1477062.jpg)
![“Folk music had long been political but [Bob] Dylan's poetry took it to a new level.” quote by Jay Michaelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5dc/jay-michaelson-15590_bob_folk-music-had-long-been-political-but-b_1333292.jpg)
![“[Bob] Dylan's many quotations from classic American roots music (that song is from an album aptly titled Love and Theft) join the aging poet to a tradition that preceded him and hopefully will outlive him as well.” quote by Jay Michaelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/21f/jay-michaelson-15590_aging_bob-dylan-s-many-quotations-from-classic_1938685.jpg)
![“Probably the high-watermark of [Bob] Dylan's career came after he plugged in his guitar ("Judas!" one fan shouted during a concert) and exploded American poetry, combining Beat aesthetics, psychedelic imagery, collage techniques.” quote by Jay Michaelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f3/jay-michaelson-15590_aesthetics_probably-the-high-watermark-of-bob-dylan_54147.jpg)
![“[Bob] Dylan thus deserves the Nobel Prize, not just for "new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," as the Nobel committee aptly described his work, but also for embodying the contradictions within it.” quote by Jay Michaelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d3b/jay-michaelson-15590_bob_bob-dylan-thus-deserves-the-nobel-prize_2829438.jpg)