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Greil Quotes & Sayings

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

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

You can't pay attention to your mistakes. I made a mistake today, I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's ... very important to ignore the negative. — Jerry Rubin

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

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

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

When I watch a comedy that's just hitting you over the head with jokes constantly, some really hit, but if they miss, you're like, 'Eh.' — David Walton

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

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

Insight is the first condition of Art. — George Henry Lewes

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

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

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body. — Thomas Mann

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

That which is large enough for the rich to covet," said Wayne, drawing up his head, "is large enough for the poor to defend. — G.K. Chesterton

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

That's my advice to people. You can't get hung up on thinking, "Am I the victim in this situation?" No, I'm in charge of it. — Mindy Kaling

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

But sometimes I really felt as though the starry sky rose and fell with the gasping of his chest. — Franz Kafka

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

Art doesn't explain itself. — Greil Marcus

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

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

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

Berkeley was a lookout and a hideout. — Greil Marcus

The Aeon is a child at play with colored balls.
(translation/paraphrase: Terence McKenna) — Heraclitus

We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results. — Voltaire