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

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Source : Greil Marcus (2015). “Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music: Sixth Edition”, p.143, Penguin

Greil Marcus

#Drama Quotes #Escaping Quotes #Limits Quotes

“May all of our relationships be gateways to sharing in the highest love and sweetest joys, and to awakening to our full potential.”
“The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies.”
“Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.”

Source : 'Discourses concerning Government' (1698) ch. 2, sect. 18
“I'm just into having fun, because I went through some bad years that really depressed me and made me angry.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I don't teach narrative theory by itself anymore, but I kind of use it when critiquing student manuscripts. So, it works its way in there, whether I like it or not.”
“What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good.”
“If we believe that Jesus of Nazareth is the only begotten Son of God and that He came into this world and went to the cross of Calvary and died for our sins and rose again in order to justify us and to give us life anew and prepare us for heaven-if you really believe that, there is only one inevitable deduction, namely that He is entitled to the whole of our lives, without any limit whatsoever.”
“I am quite happy to take a cut. You've got to, if you want to work and continue working.”

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