"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."

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Source : Greil Marcus (2014). “Mystery Train”, p.104, Faber & Faber

Greil Marcus

#Fun Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Rocks Quotes

“It's fascinating how all of us, everyday, rely - at some point, to some extent, for some reason - on faith in our life. Whether it's God or not, or "Please help me!"”
“You could make a very focused exploration game, that was about player creativity and exploration. But then it wouldn't have these very meticulous scientific kinds of puzzles in it, that Braid has. And so, it was just about picking something and understanding what it was that was chosen, and sticking to it, ruthlessly.”
“That was my goal in portraying Jesse Owens: bringing that level of humanity so people could understand who he was as a person.”
“Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I'm grateful when you use it.”
“When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.”
“Reach for the sky, it's not as high as it seems. Just follow your heart go as far as your dreams.”

Source : Song: Follow Your Heart
“You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman.”

Source : "Roger Vadim dies". The Associated Press, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2000.
“... the reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany.”

Source : Franz Halder, Charles Burton Burdick, Hans Adolf Jacobsen (1988). “The Halder war diary, 1939-1942”, Presidio Pr

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