Greil Marcus Quotes

Greil Marcus — American Author

Greil Marcus 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... (wikipedia)

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 didn't know what would happen next, but who were sure that acts of true risk and fear would produce something different from what they had been raised to take for granted.

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

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

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

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.