"I never could understand - it was impossible……" — Greil Marcus
"I never could understand - it was impossible for me to get my head around - what the furor was, what the sense of betrayal and anger and rage was about Bob Dylan's beginning to perform with a band, to play rock-and-roll, to get on the radio."
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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 Anger Quotes
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Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right…
— Aristotle
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No one loves the man whom he fears.
— Aristotle
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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the…
— Aristotle
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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful…
— Saint Augustine
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Anger cannot be dishonest.
— Marcus Aurelius
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When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
— Marcus Aurelius
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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
— Francis Bacon
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
— Francis Bacon
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I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I…
— Kevin Bacon
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I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into…
— Kevin Bacon
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
— Abu Bakr
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