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Greil Marcus has 29 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Elvis transcends his talent to the point of dispensing with it altogether.
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Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility…
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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass…
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I was the first records editor at Rolling Stone, and there were no rules. There was nothing to fall back on as…
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What's the impulse behind art? It's saying in whatever language is the language of your work, “If I could move you as…
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We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail
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It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born…
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Listening is like running down a mountain on a switchback trail, the sound of surprise generating its own momentum. There’s a punk…
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We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something…
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I had tremendous fun fooling around with the way people talked about songs, just the way that became another way of understanding…
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I want another idea, another project, but you can't make them up. They show up.
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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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My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music.
— Travis Barker
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Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
— Unknown Author
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I'm not Elvis. I don't get chased by paparazzi.
— Albert Brooks
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Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies.
— Jimmy Buffett
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If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
— Johnny Carson
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God's the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That's solely in the hands of God.
— Johnny Cash
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Before we get started, let's all say 'Happy Birthday' to Elvis Presley today.
— Michele Bachmann
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If Elvis Presley had been a bowhunter, he'd probably be alive today.
— Ted Nugent
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I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend and my best friend is…
— John Lennon
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I haven't heard from Elvis since his daughter married Michael Jackson. I think it killed him.
— Jerry Glanville
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I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that…
— Mac Davis
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I've been with certain stars; some are caring and pay attention to their fans and to their fellow performers and some are…
— Minnie Pearl
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