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
In late [Bob] Dylan, music is the key to immortality, even though the summer days are long gone. — 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
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
Folk music had long been political but [Bob] Dylan's poetry took it to a new level. — 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
[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
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
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
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 Image
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 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 exploded American… — 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 you die/And… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
“as Krishnamurti said, “It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 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, creating personae,… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
“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 Image
In late [Bob] Dylan, music is the key to immortality, even though the summer days are long gone. — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
“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 Image