I had tremendous fun fooling around with the way people talked about songs, just the way that became another way of understanding… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
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 Image
“Banishing the love song, people discovered what else there was to sing about.” — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
'Money Changes Everything' is this terribly despairing, heartbreaking song. — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
Words that in their everyday surrealism have no parallel in contemporary writing... Music that mines the deep veins of fatalism in the… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
Buddy Holly had something very different from the other great early rock n' roll stars, whether it was Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley,… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
Punk to me was a form of free speech. It was a moment when suddenly all kinds of strange voices that no… — 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
We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
Records that were the sound of somebody - more often than not, a she - speaking with a voice that had never… — 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
I never find myself even catching lyrics until something in the sound has taken me captive. Thinking about anything else is just… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
“If you're lucky, at the right time you come across music that is not only "great," or interesting, or "incredible," or fun,… — 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 Image
Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits. — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
You're going to react to a painting in a way that the painting demands you react. — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
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 Image
“[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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
![“What always attracted me to [Bob] Dylan, and what has sustained me as a Dylan listener, or has always continued to surprise me, is his voice, the way he sings, the way he wraps his voice around certain words, the way he backs off from melodic moments, the way he moves forward to grab something in…” quote by Greil Marcus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/78c/greil-marcus-10438_bob_what-always-attracted-me-to-bob-dylan-an_1781512.jpg)
![“[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 go about in public among those who thought they knew you, an unchosen mask of nervousness and tradition, the mask that, when owrn too long, makes the face behind it…” quote by Greil Marcus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/05f/greil-marcus-10438_freedom_listening-to-a-song-one-could-experience_82171.jpg)
