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• Elvis transcends his talent to the point of dispensing with it altogether.
• Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility…
• No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass…
• I was the first records editor at Rolling Stone, and there were no rules. There was nothing to fall back on as…
• What's the impulse behind art? It's saying in whatever language is the language of your work, “If I could move you as…
• We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail
• It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born…
• Listening is like running down a mountain on a switchback trail, the sound of surprise generating its own momentum. There’s a punk…
• We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something…
• I had tremendous fun fooling around with the way people talked about songs, just the way that became another way of understanding…
• I want another idea, another project, but you can't make them up. They show up.
• Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises,…

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