Bob Quote by Jay Michaelson

[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…

— Jay Michaelson

[Bob] Dylan's broken-heart songs are so much better. Like "Simple Twist of Fate".

— Bob Dylan

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…

— Jay Michaelson

Bob Dylan was again an entirely new person - this time old, craggy, cynical, and world-weary, as in "Not Dark Yet".

— Bob Dylan

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

— Jay Michaelson

[Bob] Dylan crashed his motorcycle in 1967, and almost died. A few years ago, he referred to the experience as a "transfiguration."

— Bob Dylan

[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

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

— Jay Michaelson

The thing about Bob Dylan's performative essence is that he keeps singing these old songs as well as the new songs, and the old…

— Richard F. Thomas

Just in time for Bob Dylan to recoil from the attention, leave the city for Woodstock, and turn his back on fame.

— Bob Dylan

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

Bob Dylan was the source of pop music's unpredictability in the Sixties. Never as big a record-seller as commonly imagined, his importance was first…

— Jon Landau