"I am a critic who is pulled toward……" — Greil Marcus
"I am a critic who is pulled toward history. But Bob Dylan himself is a great historian. He is an historian who acts out history. So it always has a personal stamp. It always has a particular timbre. It always has a particular howl, or a moan, in that voice."
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27 Quotes by Greil Marcus
Greil Marcus has 27 quotes on this site.
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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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More Acts Quotes
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
— Aristotle
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The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
— Teresa of Avila
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What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and…
— Sai Baba
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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs.…
— Philip James Bailey
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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
— Bernard Baruch
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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a…
— Joseph Addison
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The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself.…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long…
— Alfred Adler
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
— William Blake
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Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of…
— John Boehner
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