“From the strength of their personal decency and dedication, the musicians summoned up an oceanic passion, a commitment to the true experience of their materials that short-circuited the hair on the back of one’s neck”

"We went in thinking, we'll document the Band's last concert and maybe we'll get something, maybe we won't. Then when the footage came back I just said, 'Wow. This is fantastic. We've got a movie.’ ” 

“We don’t have to bow our heads in shame because this is the best album of 1975. It would have been the best album of 1967, too”

“Dylan was afraid, that was for sure. But he wasn’t afraid of us, the audience. It was himself he feared — the process or going back over those songs which bore the pain of becoming Bob Dylan, the highs, the lows, all of that life.”

"Easy Rider is the only film I know that not only uses rock well — though that is rare enough — but also does justice to its spirit."

“It’s like two ex-lovers planning to spend a night together for the first time in seven years, this reunion of Dylan and his American audience tonight. Do they act their ages for each other or do they revive aging acts?”