Jay Michaelson

Except in these latter-day songs, [Bob] Dylan is a grizzled old prophet who's already been to hell and back.

— Jay Michaelson

The most recent incarnation of [Bob] Dylan has been the traveling journeyman/ charlatan who sings roots music, snarls dark lyrics that make…

— Jay Michaelson

We in the Jewish community are comparatively lucky. All of traditions have anti-gay pieces but the Jewish tradition doesn't have as many…

— Jay Michaelson

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

"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

“as Krishnamurti said, “It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”

— Jay Michaelson

People should support equality because of their religion not despite it. These are the values that openness, inclusion, diversity promote. And they're…

— Jay Michaelson

“Dukkha is not the self-inflicted stress of a technology executive; it’s the real stuff, the kind of suffering that merits the Pali…

— Jay Michaelson

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

“It is possible to refine awareness itself so much that the emptiness of things, and the role mental construction plays, becomes a…

— Jay Michaelson

In late [Bob] Dylan, music is the key to immortality, even though the summer days are long gone.

— Jay Michaelson

“For the Buddha of the Pali Canon, the goal is liberation: the cessation of suffering, the end of the endless hamster-wheel of…

— Jay Michaelson

I suspect many readers might associate [Bob Dylan] with one of the shortest phases of his career, the time from 1963 to…

— Jay Michaelson

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

[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

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

“The Hindu sage Ramakrishna once said that the mind is like fabric; it takes the color of the dye it’s soaked in.…

— Jay Michaelson

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

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

I was raised a nice Jewish boy in a Conservative household. Went to Camp Ramah. It's funny actually. I think I enacted…

— Jay Michaelson

Folk music had long been political but [Bob] Dylan's poetry took it to a new level.

— Jay Michaelson

Religion is commodified; the educational system is a sham; and yet,[Bob] Dylan wonders, everyone has to stand naked sometime.

— Jay Michaelson

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

[Bob] Dylan would cut out phrases from magazines and then paste them together.

— Jay Michaelson

At the last stages of the journey, there’s no journey at all.

— Jay Michaelson