"We fight our way through the massed and……" — Greil Marcus
"We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it."
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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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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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You're going to react to a painting in a way that the painting demands you react.
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