93 Quotes by Greil Marcus

I think criticism, or a critical engagement with history, has a good deal to do with a willingness to be fooled.

I don't know that there's a division between American and British, European, South American, Asian sensibilities when it comes to rock n' roll or, really, any form of music. Songs travel, and people take them into their lives in all different kinds of unpredictable and really untraceable ways.

'Money Changes Everything' is this terribly despairing, heartbreaking song.

When I listen to Joy Division, it doesn't sound particularly English.

I was an American Studies student at Berkeley as an undergraduate, and pretty much as a graduate student, too.

When you're writing criticism or thinking critically, to draw a very limited minor conclusion from solid evidence is really not thinking.

There's never been a Van Morrison album that I haven't immediately listened to, whether with delight or crushing disappointment.

It's very lucky when you have an artist - whether it's a novelist or a filmmaker or a singer - whose career you can follow from the beginning and feel that you are in some way part of it, or part of the same world that it comes out of.

I don't think my life itself is very interesting.