There's been a streak of vengeance and carnage in all of Dylan's records except for the Christmas record, since 2001, since 'Love and Theft.' Particularly on 'Modern Times' in 2006.
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We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail.
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I never find myself even catching lyrics until something in the sound has taken me captive. Thinking about anything else is just the pleasurable byproduct of wow.
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When you're writing criticism or thinking critically, to draw a very limited minor conclusion from solid evidence is really not thinking.
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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.
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I want another idea, another project, but you can't make them up. They show up.
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It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.
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Tidak ada kegagalan di Amerika, baik cinta atau uang, yang sederhana; itu selalu semacam pengkhianatan, dari sekumpulan bayangan, harapan bersama.
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When you celebrate somebody's bad work on the terms that define their good work, how can that artist have anything but contempt for an audience that can't tell the good from the bad?