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 of the value of those limits
Greil MarcusWords that in their everyday surrealism have no parallel in contemporary writing... Music that mines the deep veins of fatalism in the Appalachian voice
Greil MarcusHearing things like 'Wake Up' by Lora Logic, or the Raincoats' 'In Love' - that was something I wasn't prepared for. I couldn't hear anything that came before it in the music, and I didn't want to. I was absolutely in love with its out-of-nowhereness.
Greil MarcusListening is like running down a mountain on a switchback trail, the sound of surprise generating its own momentum. Thereโs a punk glee inside the bluegrass craftโand a punk vehemence inside the bluegrass smile.
Greil Marcus