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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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True beauty, the kind that doesn't fade or wash off, takes time. It takes incredible endurance. It is the slow drip that…
— Amy Harmon
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I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because 'romantic' doesn't mean 'sugary.' It's dark and tormented —…
— Catherine Breillat
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This is a confusing and uncertain period, when a thousand wise words can go completely unnoticed, and one thoughtless word can provoke…
— Vaclav Havel
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I never could understand - it was impossible for me to get my head around - what the furor was, what the…
— Greil Marcus
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I don't think there is any religious revival. I think what we are hearing, the furor, is merely the hysterical response of…
— Daniel Dennett
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Then the album created a tremendous furor and got me kicked off Christian television for two months, and then restored after they…
— Pat Boone
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I'd only read a bit of the first book. And I just knew about all the media furor over it. But I'd…
— David Thewlis
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