Punk to me was a form of free speech. It was a moment when suddenly all kinds of strange voices that no reasonable person could ever have expected to…

- Greil Marcus

The Sixties are most generously described as a time when people took part - when they stepped out of themselves and acted in public, as people who di…

- Greil Marcus

Listening is like running down a mountain on a switchback trail, the sound of surprise generating its own momentum. There’s a punk glee inside the bl…

- Greil Marcus

I am a critic who is pulled toward history. But Bob Dylan himself is a great historian. He is an historian who acts out history. So it always has a p…

- Greil Marcus

I want another idea, another project, but you can't make them up. They show up.

- Greil Marcus

Along with a lot of other things, becoming a Bob Dylan fan made me a writer. I was never interested in figuring out what the songs meant. I was inter…

- Greil Marcus

Every youth movement presents itself as a loan to the future, and tries to call in its lien in advance, but when there is no future all loans are can…

- Greil Marcus

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…

- Greil Marcus

It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.

- Greil Marcus