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19 quotes by Greil Marcus

Greil Marcus (born June 19, 1945) is an American author, music journalist and cultural critic. He is notable for producing scholarly and literary essays that place rock music in a much broader framework of culture and politics than is customary in pop music journalism.
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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.

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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... →

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If 'Mystery Train' is my Nixon book and 'Lipstick Traces' my Reagan book, 'Invisible Republic' is my Bill Clinton book. I... →

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

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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.

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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... →

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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... →

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

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

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

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

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

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

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