[And if he believed he was wrong, he'd say so:] He doubled back on himself again and again, ... Psychotic Reactions. |
[Telluride's programming often goes down to the wire, and additional titles could materialize. There are rumors of late-breaking sneak screenings that could include Martin Scorsese 's 3-1/2-hour Bob Dylan documentary] No Direction Home, ... Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads. |
Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations. |
Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits, ... Mystery Train. |
He sounds like he's been doing it for years. In his head he probably has. |
I'm not even close to being sick of 'Like a Rolling Stone,' ... Every time I hear it, it's like the first time. I find that's even more true now than before. Now I don't just smile. I'm astonished. |
It draws a line in the sand. Once you cross it, you can't go back, |
It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths. |
It made itself a home on Top 40 radio. |
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. |
It works on its own terms. It puts you on the spot. It asks of you the fear and courage that it asks of its subject. |
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. |
Rock 'n Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments of unbelievable clarity and invention, pleasure, fun, vulgarity, excess, novelty and utter enervation. |
We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it. |