Joshua

“Nobody could just learn this stuff, and it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns . . . that I would have to start believing in possibilities that I wouldn’t have allowed before, that I had been closing my creativity down to a very narrow, controllable scale . . . that things had become too familiar and that I might have to disorientate myself. . . . I can’t say I’d seen any performances that were like spiritual experiences until I went to Lomax’s loft. I pondered it. I wasn’t ready to act on any of it but I knew somehow, though, that if I wanted to stay playing music, that I would have to claim a larger part of myself.”
― Robert Polito, After the Flood: Inside Bob Dylan's Memory Palace