30 Greil Marcus Quotes on Ranters and Crowd Pleasers: Punk in Pop Music, Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll and Contemplation - Quotes.pub

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At a deeper level it is a fantasy of no-limits for a people who live within a labyrinth of limits every day of their lives, and who can transgress them only among themselves.

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The only thing that rock & roll did not get from country and blues was a sense of consequences,” the writer Bill Flanagan said to Neil Young in 1986.

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It was the invention in the music that was so striking —the will to create what had never been heard before, through vocal tricks, rhythmic shifts, pieces of sound that didn’t logically follow one from the other, that didn’t make musical or even emotional sense when looked at as pieces, but as a whole spoke a new language.

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For thirty years you couldn’t possibly make it unless you were white, sleek, nicely spoken, and phony to your toenails—suddenly now you could be black, purple, moronic, delinquent, diseased, or almost anything on earth, and you could still clean up.

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Wonder made the old chicka-chicka-boom beat so potent it sounded like a syncopated version of Judgment Day.

Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music: Sixth Edition Quotes

Most have simply seen and done too much; as the Rolling Stones have been proving for ten years, you have to work for innocence. You have to win it, or you end up with nothing more than a strained naïveté.

Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music: Sixth Edition Quotes

It goes back to gospel, both the technique and the soul. As the singer must convince you that as he or she sings, he or she has, by a commitment God can recognize, called down a visitation,

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Some forms of music spark the freedom of singers to say, in words or how words are sung, in pace, hesitation, timbre, shouts, or silences, what they most deeply and desperately want to say; other forms take it away.

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But it is the moment when something appears as if out of nowhere, when a work of art carries within itself the thrill of invention, of discovery, that is worth listening for. It’s that moment when a song or a performance is its own manifesto, issuing its own demands on life in its own, new language—which, though the charge of novelty is its essence, is immediately grasped by any number of people who will swear they never heard anything like it before—that speaks. In rock ’n’ roll, this is a moment that, in historical time, is repeated again and again, until, as culture, it defines the art itself.

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It is only too clear that man is not at home in this universe, and yet he is not good enough to deserve a better.

Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music: Sixth Edition Quotes

For every new art form there's someone to come along and pronounce it dead, but rarely has an art form been born dead - as is the case with rock video, and its major outlet, MTV.

There is always a social explanation for what we see in art,” Albert Camus said in 1947. “Only it doesn’t explain anything important.

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Someone was going to want to say, I’m fucked.

History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs Quotes

Punk was just a single, venomous one-syllable, two-syllable phrase of anger—which was necessary to reignite rock & roll. But sooner or later, someone was going to want to say more than fuck you.

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Yet “nothing” is not quite Faulkner’s last word, only the next to the last. In the end, the negativist is no nihilist, for he affirms the void.

History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs Quotes

Curlicuing around the note allows a singer to mimic the sense of event in soul music, the sense that something is happening which has not happened before and cannot be repeated, by mimicking the apprehension of soul, those moments when singers dramatize their struggle to bring out of themselves what lies buried in them, inaccessible, until this moment, even to themselves.

History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs Quotes

Blues grew out of the need to live in the brutal world that stood ready in ambush the moment one walked out of the church.

Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music: Sixth Edition Quotes

Renee's self-possession, her ability to possess other selves, is a measure of the weakness of her husband, his inability to stop his own self from splitting in half.

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Berkeley was a lookout and a hideout.

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… rock ‘n’ roll may be more than anything a continuum of associations, a drama of direct and spectral connections between songs and performers It may be a story about the way a song will continue speaking in a radically different setting than the one that, it may have seemed, gave rise to it, a story in which someone may own the copyright but the voice of the song is under no one’s control. Rock ‘n’ roll may be most of all a language that, it declares can say anything: divine all truths, reveal all mysteries, escape all restrictions.

[Listening to a song] one could experience a freedom from one's physical body, and from one's social body - the mask you wore to go about in public among those who thought they knew you, an unchosen mask of nervousness and tradition, the mask that, when owrn too long, makes the face behind it shrivel up and rot away. For some, a spinning record opened up the possibility that one might say anything, in any voice, with any face, the singer's mask now a sign of mystery.

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Art doesn’t explain itself.

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One thing that old blues records teach you, is that even people with very limited skills can play very personal, distinctive, and appealing music that has nothing to do with the extent of their technique. It was their artistry. It was their feeling.

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critic Robert Ray once said, “What’s interesting about rock & roll is that the truly radical aspect occurs at the level of sound. ‘Tutti Frutti’ is far more radical than Lennon’s ‘Woman Is the Nigger of the World,’ and the sound of Bob Dylan’s voice changed more people’s ideas about the world than his political message did.

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And because soul music is the limitless affirmation of the individual despite his or her past sins and all obstacles in his or her way,

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D. H. Lawrence’s “Never trust the teller. Trust the tale” is always right.

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Banishing the love song, people discovered what else there was to sing about.

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Good art is always dangerous, always open-ended. Once you put it out in the world you lose control of it; people will fit it into their minds in all sorts of different ways.

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Every time Elvis sings, he makes a bargain with the devil -- just like Captain Ahab in MOBY DICK!

Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Quotes

If you're lucky, at the right time you come across music that is not only "great," or interesting, or "incredible," or fun, but actually sustaining. Though some elusive but tangible process, a piece of music cuts through all defenses and makes sense of every fear and desire you bring to it. As it does so, it exposes all you've held back, and then makes sense of that, too. Though someone else is doing the talking, the experience is like a confession. Your emotions shoot out to crazy extremes; you feel both ennobled and unworthy, saved and damned. You hear that this is what life is all about, that this is what it is for. Yet it is this recognition itself that makes you understand that life can never be this good, this whole. With a clarity life denies for its own good reasons, you see places to which you can never get.

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