Division Quote by Greil Marcus Download Open image “When I listen to Joy Division, it doesn't sound particularly English.” — Greil Marcus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Division English Joy Joy division Listen Sound
It's amazing when you're playing to a crowd who barely understands English but they're singing parts of your song back to you. — Jason Derulo Copy Share Image
The music takes over the words and makes them speak to me in another language. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
I've often been asked, 'aren't you going to sing in English?' So I'm very glad to have a song in English. — Suzuka Nakamoto Copy Share Image
What is remarkable about Joy Division is the way they are bereft of two of the mainstays of most other rock and pop: longing… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
There's not that much English folk music that is really that appealing. — Alison Goldfrapp Copy Share Image
True joy doth need no song to praise it, silence for love's delight is best. — Emanuel Geibel Copy Share Image
People say it's a bit repetitive to say, 'Oh oh oh oh oh oh,' but you can't translate the melody into words. — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate. — Neville Marriner 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
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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
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