Phrase by 'Greil Marcus'

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I tend not to meet the people I write about because I'm not really interested in the people I write about as people. I don't want to know about their family life. I don't want to know about their bad habits or their good deeds. I'm interested in their work.

Author: Greil Marcus - American Author
  Life , Work , Family , Good


Buddy Holly had something very different from the other great early rock n' roll stars, whether it was Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Bo Diddley. He came across as so ordinary, as such a nerd. You know, he was a big guy, and he carried a gun. He was anything but a nerd.

Author: Greil Marcus - American Author
  You , Great , Stars , Gun


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

Author: Greil Marcus - American Author
  Talent , Point , His , Transcends


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

Author: Greil Marcus - American Author
  New , Old , Succeed , Trapped


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.

Author: Greil Marcus - American Author
  Me , Myself , Never , Thinking


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.

Author: Greil Marcus - American Author
  Me , Simple , Listen , Real


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.'

Author: Greil Marcus - American Author
  Think , Great , Movies , Empathy


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.

Author: Greil Marcus - American Author
  America , Suffering , Patriotism , Promises


If 'Mystery Train' is my Nixon book and 'Lipstick Traces' my Reagan book, 'Invisible Republic' is my Bill Clinton book. I really liked Clinton. He made me proud to be part of this country again. For all of his failings, the way he put all that he'd done in jeopardy, I supported him from beginning to end.

Author: Greil Marcus - American Author
  Me , Proud , Beginning , Way


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

Author: Greil Marcus - American Author
  People , World , Way , Fun


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