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Greil Marcus

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


— Greil Marcus


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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.


— Greil Marcus


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


— Greil Marcus


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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.


— Greil Marcus


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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 of the value of those limits.


— Greil Marcus


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


— Greil Marcus


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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. " During the fall of 2008 Marcus held the Winton Chair in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota where he taught and lectured on the history of American pop culture. The Los Angeles Review of Books in 2012 publiGreil Marcusd a 20000 word interview with Marcus about his life.

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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