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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. · Can we improve this biography or this incorrect? Post your own bio in the forums. Explore books and films about Marcus, Greil.

"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."

Marcus, Greil on Failure
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"Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations."

Marcus, Greil on Applause
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"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 on Music
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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."

Marcus, Greil on Myth
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"Rock 'n Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments of unbelievable clarity and invention, pleasure, fun, vulgarity, excess, novelty and utter enervation."

Marcus, Greil on Rock and Roll
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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."

Marcus, Greil on Struggle
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