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Greil Marcus quotes: You're going to react to a painting in a way that the painting demands you react.

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

Greil Marcus quotes: Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them.

Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them.

Greil Marcus quotes: Van Morrison remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music.

Van Morrison remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music.

Greil Marcus quotes: Elvis transcends his talent to the point of dispensing with it altogether.

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

Greil Marcus quotes: I want another idea, another project, but you can't make them up. They show up.

I want another idea, another project, but you can't make them up. They show up.

Greil Marcus quotes: 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.

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.

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

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

Greil Marcus quotes: I had tremendous fun fooling around with the way people talked about songs, just the way that became another way of understanding the world.

I had tremendous fun fooling around with the way people talked about songs, just the way that became another way of understanding the world.

Greil Marcus quotes: And because soul music is the limitless affirmation of the individual despite his or her past sins and all obstacles in his or her way,

And because soul music is the limitless affirmation of the individual despite his or her past sins and all obstacles in his or her way,

Greil Marcus quotes: Someone was going to want to say, I'm fucked.

Someone was going to want to say, I'm fucked.

Greil Marcus quotes: Banishing the love song, people discovered what else there was to sing about.

Banishing the love song, people discovered what else there was to sing about.

Greil Marcus quotes: Berkeley was a lookout and a hideout.

Berkeley was a lookout and a hideout.

Greil Marcus quotes: D. H. Lawrence's "Never trust the teller. Trust the tale" is always right.

D. H. Lawrence's "Never trust the teller. Trust the tale" is always right.

Greil Marcus quotes: Every time Elvis sings, he makes a bargain with the devil -- just like Captain Ahab in MOBY DICK!

Every time Elvis sings, he makes a bargain with the devil -- just like Captain Ahab in MOBY DICK!

Greil Marcus quotes: Art doesn't explain itself.

Art doesn't explain itself.

Greil Marcus quotes: Blues grew out of the need to live in the brutal world that stood ready in ambush the moment one walked out of the church.

Blues grew out of the need to live in the brutal world that stood ready in ambush the moment one walked out of the church.

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

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

Greil Marcus quotes: Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits.

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