Wilentz Quotes

#1. A panoramic vision of Bob Dylan, his music, his shifting place in American culture, from multiple angles. In fact, reading Sean Wilentz's Bob Dylan in America is as thrilling and surprising as listening to a great Dylan song.

Martin Scorsese

#2. Unlike so many Dylan-writer-wannabes and phony 'encyclopedia' compilers, Sean Wilentz makes me feel he was in the room when he chronicles events that I participated in. Finally a breath of fresh words founded in hardcore, intelligent research.

Al Kooper

#3. The sense comes back to me of life
as it always was then, an affliction
even blinder because wondrously filled
with sweetness.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

#4. To say that poverty explains terror is to slander those caught in poverty who choose to lead worthy lives. [Terrorists] are not the oppressed, but they are the parasites of the oppressed.

Sean Wilentz

#5. Eternity manifests itself in endless ways on endless planes of existence that they call lokas, other dimensions ... worlds within worlds.

Frederick Lenz

#6. Probably my two biggest musical influences were the Everly Brothers and the Beatles, in chronological order. Both of them have had a very simple-sounding musical style that's actually quite complex as far as popular songs are concerned.

Arlo Guthrie

#7. Politics is about who wins and loses. The rest is of marginal interest.

Sean Wilentz

#8. Valyrian is oddly easier than Dothraki. It's got a more lyrical flow to it that feels more familiar to the way I speak. That makes it slightly easier.

Emilia Clarke

#9. A wind starts to blow, without feelings,
A song falls in love, without singing,
A life will begin in melodies of the strings,
May you find all pleasure of the light,
God bless, Warrior of Light!

Santosh Kalwar

#10. The martinis came, not in little glasses but big as bird baths with twists of lemon peel. The first taste bit like a vampire bat, made its little anesthesia, and after that the drink mellowed and toward the bottom turned downright good.

John Steinbeck

#11. I didn't have this tortured childhood; I liked it.

John Hughes

#12. You don't stop playing because you get old, you get old because you stop playing.

James Holmes

#13. The problem of Palestine was that everyone wanted things simple: everyone was an extremist because everyone wanted things simple. It was the problem of humanity. Good and evil, as if there were only those two. The interesting thing was to seek truth and then face it.

Amy Wilentz

#14. One of the reasons that any person writes anything is to try and keep his own sanity together.

Sean Wilentz

#15. Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet.

Sean Wilentz

#16. I think that's what Dylan's trying to do: to create a space artistically where something else can take shape, can take life - where there's hope.

Sean Wilentz

#17. "The most powerful single idea in mathematics is the notion of a variable."

Alexander Dewdney

#18. How we spend our time verifies what we value most: TV, the Internet, or God's Word?

Randy Alcorn

#19. When you ain't got nothin', you got nothin' to lose.

Bob Dylan