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Greil Marcus Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: 1945

Topics

Succeed New Trapped Old Fail Make

I'm inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

Age People Matter Inspired Rolling

There's a lot of different parts to me, so it makes total sense to me that I would do a big TV show or studio movie and then do a free comedy show the next day. They both feel equally important to me.

Day Me Free Feel Comedy Important

We just moved out of L.A. because I didn't want to be raising my girls in the city. They're in public school now and they're in a normal situation. We're sort of settling into that. It's just a choice.

School City Choice Situation Want

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Virtue Modesty Overrated Vastly

Homework's hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, 'Okay.' And then I sit down and they say, 'It's math.' 'No! Not math! English, history, anything!'

History Me Homework Down Say Okay

I told my mom I went gold, and she didn't know what that meant, and I was immediately humbled.

Mom Gold Know She Humbled Meant

I love traditional music. But in any culture around the world, there is the historic and cultural music and everything that's been passed down and passed down, and hopefully you take that, and then you take it, you know, the next distance, and then somebody else takes it the next distance.

Robbie Robertson

Love Music Culture World You Down

One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis at home. My stepfather fell sick, and it meant I had to support the family.

Mary Lou Williams

Family Home Support Listening Sick

Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.

Growth Spiritual Birth Suffer Pains

The military is a group of people that come together from different perspectives and backgrounds and places and get a job done because they have a mission.

Together Job People Mission Done

Since I got to this country when I was 12, I've been obsessed with this idea of whiteness and blackness because I realized I was neither. For me, it was so important to me to make a film that focused on whiteness because you wouldn't have blackness if you didn't have whiteness.

Jose Antonio Vargas

Me You Country Important Focused

'Amores Perros' and 'Once Were Warriors' had a tremendous visceral quality that really influenced me.

Brendan Fletcher

Quality Me Influenced Warriors Once

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