"We make the oldest stories new when we……" — Greil Marcus
"We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail"
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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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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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You're going to react to a painting in a way that the painting demands you react.
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More Fail Quotes
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
— Richard Armour
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Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.
— Karen Armstrong
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Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail…
— Johann Arndt
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
— John James Audubon
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All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the…
— Diane Ackerman
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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the…
— Teresa of Avila
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Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.
— Lester Bangs
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We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility…
— Christian Bale
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Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites,…
— Clara Barton
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We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to…
— Glenn Beck
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
— Samuel Beckett
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