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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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His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said…
— Stephen King
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Hills tell old stories. Cliffs are poets with harps
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I know these will become old stories someday and our pictures will become old photographs and we'll all become somebody's Mom or…
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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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When your intention is great enough you will ALWAYS find the time and energy to accomplish your desires. You can state excuses…
— James Arthur Ray
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The book, the idea of a book or the image of a book, is a symbol of learning, of transmitting knowledge.. I…
— Anselm Kiefer
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You are born with a character; it is given, a gift, as the old stories say, from the guardians upon your birth...Each…
— James Hillman
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What does it matter, if we tell the same old stories? ...Stories tell us who we are. What we’re capable of. When…
— Kameron Hurley
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There's no longevity in me telling old stories on the radio.
— Danny Bonaduce
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I confessed recently to an old friend, "I realized I was looking at you, in your visit, through old glasses. Speaking old…
— Mary Anne Radmacher
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My material is as new as anything on the dinner table. What difference does it make if I'm 70 or if I'm…
— Jackie Mason
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That's why we sail. So our children can grow up and be proud of whom they are. We are healing our souls…
— Nainoa Thompson
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