Quotes by Marcus, Greil

Rock 'n Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible >>

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle >>

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is >>

Quotations about Music

Canned music is like audible wallpaper. >>

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing. >>

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. >>

We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.

Marcus, Greil