"Elvis transcends his talent to the point of……" — Greil Marcus

"Elvis transcends his talent to the point of dispensing with it altogether."

— Greil Marcus

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27 Quotes by Greil Marcus

Greil Marcus has 27 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and…
No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of…
I was the first records editor at Rolling Stone, and there were no rules. There was nothing to fall back…
What's the impulse behind art? It's saying in whatever language is the language of your work, “If I could move…
We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail
It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one…
Listening is like running down a mountain on a switchback trail, the sound of surprise generating its own momentum. There’s…
We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a…
I had tremendous fun fooling around with the way people talked about songs, just the way that became another way…
I want another idea, another project, but you can't make them up. They show up.
Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to…
You're going to react to a painting in a way that the painting demands you react.

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My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish. — John James Audubon
The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in… — Charles Babbage
I've been to a number of places and seen for myself the caliber of people who are in the Navy… — Ernest Borgnine
Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy. — Jo Brand
In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same… — James Buchan
Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people… — Luis Bunuel
I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether. — Lord Byron
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. — Thomas Carlyle
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether. — Thomas Carlyle
Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith. — Thomas Carlyle
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Never comment on a woman's rear end. Never use the words 'large' or 'size' with 'rear end.' Never. Avoid the… — Tim Allen

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