Word: dylan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Dylan opera with him. I'd produce him. You see, he's never been produced. He's always gone into the studio on the strength of his lyrics ... There is no reason why Dylan can't be recorded in a very certain way and a very beautiful way where you can just sit back and say 'Wow' about everything - not just him and the song - just everything." - on wanting to work with Bob Dylan (Rolling Stone...
...People call me a genius. Well, Phil Spector is a genius." - Bob Dylan, during a concert (Vanity Fair, June...
...Klein actually gets it concerning Bob Dylan [May 11]. I have followed Dylan for more than 46 years, from his folk era to Blonde on Blonde, with its existential masterpiece "Visions of Johanna," and beyond. Albert Einstein said of Gandhi, "Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ... walked upon this earth." I feel the same can be said of Dylan. I know he bristles at such adoration, but if he were in my shoes, he'd understand the appreciation and love. With so much evil in the world, humanity needs poets like Dylan who challenge...
...much for staying forever young. Unlike that other Dylan--Thomas, whose name he appropriated--Bob doesn't rage against the dying of the light. He savors it, tries to understand it, enjoys the long-term memories--the sound of Chess records--sighs and heads home: "The sun is sinking low/ I guess it's time to go/ I feel a chilly breeze/ in place of memories." But it's not over yet, is it, Bob? The creative arc's not complete. You've got one more trick, right...
...still true, even now, with Together Through Life. It will not go down among his best albums, but the music is good, and the mood is poignant to the point of intoxication, the wheezy nostalgia anchored by David Hidalgo's magnificent accordion work. Dylan can still get frisky, as he does with the last track on the album, "It's All Good," in which the banality of that expression is demolished in escalating scenes of horror...