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Greil Marcus Quotes

American - Author | 1945 -

Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits.

Music Limits Early Drama Because He

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

Culture End Dead Sure Sign Myths

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.

Struggle Value Free Limits Learn

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Love Failure Money Simple America

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

Talent Point His Transcends Elvis

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail.

Succeed New Trapped Old Fail Make

I never find myself even catching lyrics until something in the sound has taken me captive. Thinking about anything else is just the pleasurable byproduct of wow.

Myself Me Thinking Find Never Sound

Bob Dylan continues to release odd and unsettling records, and to do odd and unsettling things on stage. So the term 'still' seems meaningless to me. But the real answer is simple: I listen to Bob Dylan for pleasure more than I listen to anyone else for pleasure.

Simple Me Listen More Real Stage

Farber had a huge effect on me as a writer. I don't mean I write like him. Farber is, first of all, a great stylist, a great writer. Anyone can read Manny Farber's film criticism, whether that person is a novelist, a poet, another critic, a historian, and learn a lot about writing by reading him.

Great Me Writing Reading Criticism

You're going to react to a painting in a way that the painting demands you react.

Painting You React Way Going

I'm a fan of Oliver Stone. I like his movies, I like his excess, and I think he has a great capacity for empathy and it comes out more powerfully in this movie than in any of his other films, even the formal 'I'm identifying with the underdog' movies like 'Born on the Fourth of July.'

Great Empathy Underdog Think Stone

The Sixties are most generously described as a time when people took part - when they stepped out of themselves and acted in public, as people who didn't know what would happen next, but who were sure that acts of true risk and fear would produce something different from what they had been raised to take for granted.

Fear Time People Take For Granted

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