"Elvis' early music has drama because as he……" — Greil Marcus
"Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits."
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27 Quotes by Greil Marcus
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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…
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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of…
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I was the first records editor at Rolling Stone, and there were no rules. There was nothing to fall back…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a…
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I had tremendous fun fooling around with the way people talked about songs, just the way that became another way…
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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…
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A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour…
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The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of…
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I love a bit of drama. That's a bad thing. I can flip really quickly.
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Drama is what I did before 'Blossom.'
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