I never could understand - it was impossible for me to get my head around - what the furor was, what the… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan continues to release odd and unsettling records, and to do odd and unsettling things on stage. So the term 'still'… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
Along with a lot of other things, becoming a Bob Dylan fan made me a writer. I was never interested in figuring… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
If Bob Dylan really is an historian in and of himself in his work, in his performances, he is also an historian… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
What always attracted me to [Bob] Dylan, and what has sustained me as a Dylan listener, or has always continued to surprise… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
I am a critic who is pulled toward history. But Bob Dylan himself is a great historian. He is an historian who… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
There's been a streak of vengeance and carnage in all of Dylan's records except for the Christmas record, since 2001, since 'Love… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
As I write, Johnny Rotten's first moments in "Anarchy in the U.K." - a rolling earthquake of a laugh, a buried shout, then hoary… — Greil Marcus Copy Share
You're going to react to a painting in a way that the painting demands you react. — Greil Marcus Copy Share
No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy,… — Greil Marcus Copy Share
“[Listening to a song] one could experience a freedom from one's physical body, and from one's social body - the mask you wore to… — Greil Marcus Copy Share
Records that were the sound of somebody - more often than not, a she - speaking with a voice that had never been heard… — Greil Marcus Copy Share
I never could understand - it was impossible for me to get my head around - what the furor was, what the sense of… — Greil Marcus Copy Share
There is no pop category, let alone any infinitely gene-sliced genre name, to contain the lead in Rihanna's voice in 'Needed Me.' — Greil Marcus Copy Share
I'm a fan of Oliver Stone. I like his movies, I like his excess, and I think he has a great capacity for empathy… — Greil Marcus Copy Share
Bob Dylan continues to release odd and unsettling records, and to do odd and unsettling things on stage. So the term 'still' seems meaningless… — Greil Marcus Copy Share
When you're writing criticism or thinking critically, to draw a very limited minor conclusion from solid evidence is really not thinking. — Greil Marcus Copy Share
My ideal reader is somebody who trips over a copy of my book on the sidewalk; then they pick it up and read as… — Greil Marcus Copy Share
I don't know that there's a division between American and British, European, South American, Asian sensibilities when it comes to rock n' roll or,… — Greil Marcus Copy Share
We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can… — Greil Marcus Copy Share
“Banishing the love song, people discovered what else there was to sing about.” — Greil Marcus Copy Share
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