Highway 61 Revisited Quotes

“In these Dysfunctional States of America, the Know-Nothings are the ruling party, and mediocrity its own reward.”
― Mark Polizzotti, Highway 61 Revisited

“Tom Thumb’s Blues” paints a picture of bluffing and loss, of being in over your head, of fearing that you can never return home. When one has strayed so far away from the road, the only recourse is to go all the way back, as north and east as Juarez is south and west. “I’m going back to New York City, I do believe I’ve had enough,”
― Mark Polizzotti, Highway 61 Revisited

“Everything has been stripped away. You’re on your own, you’re free now… You’re so helpless, and now you’ve got nothing left. And you’re invisible—you’ve got no secrets—that’s so liberating. You’ve nothing to fear anymore.”31 It is this sense of release—from possessions, from expectations, from societal demands—that lifts the song above just character demolition, and that no doubt accounts for much of its enduring popularity.”
― Mark Polizzotti, Highway 61 Revisited

“And as Dylan keeps reminding us, he not busy being born, and then reborn, is busy dying.”
― Mark Polizzotti, Highway 61 Revisited

“A good ten years before the fact, Dylan was already out-punking Johnny Rotten.”
― Mark Polizzotti, Highway 61 Revisited