"It is a sure sign that a culture……" — Greil Marcus

"It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths."

— Greil Marcus

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27 Quotes by Greil Marcus

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

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

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Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of… — Hannah Arendt
Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because… — Aristotle
Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your… — Antonin Artaud
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. — Bella Abzug
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or… — Michelle Bachelet
Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture. — Michele Bachmann
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed… — Lord Acton
Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really… — Erykah Badu
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to… — Joan Baez
A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself. — Walter Bagehot
We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on… — Pearl Bailey

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