"I never could understand - it was impossible for me to get my head around - what the furor was, what the sense of betrayal and anger and rage was about Bob Dylan's beginning to perform with a band, to play rock-and-roll, to get on the radio."

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Source : "Talkin’ Bob Dylan". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. October 19, 2010.

Greil Marcus

#Betrayal Quotes #Rocks Quotes #Rock And Roll Quotes

“Franchesca and Sharkey, my French bulldogs, have their own blog. And they are brilliant at it.”
“Truly, if you were to tear me limb from limb and separate my soul from my body, I would not say anything more. If I did say anything, afterwards I would always declare that you made me say it by force!”
“The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel.”
“I was interested in the ways we can write biography. When you're first starting to write about your own life it feels so shapeless because you don't know how to make your own story cohesive. How do I pluck a story out of the entirety of what it means to be alive. It occurred to me recently that when you're telling a story about your own life, rather than taking a chunk, you're kinda like lifting a thread from a loom.”
“Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.”
“Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual pattern. A long-lived boom driven by cheap credit, going back as far as 1982 (though subject to interruptions in the mid-1980s and 1990s, and in 2001), came to grief because of a rise in the cost of borrowing money.”
“I call myself a FFP: former fat person, and when you're an FFP, you will always see in yourself what people used to bully you for.”

Source : "Kelly Osbourne's DOs and DON'Ts of Body Confidence" By Amy Spencer, www.glamour.com. April 2, 2012.
“A golfer rarely needs to hit a spectacular shot until the one that preceded it was pretty bad.”

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