“Think about how rare it is for anyone to encounter a teacher who can open you up to the notion that there is an infinite amount of meaning and possibility and inspiration in the smallest thing before you.” ThinkingInspirationTeacherPossibilityAmountInfiniteNotionEncountersSmallest Author:Greil Marcus
“I was the first records editor at Rolling Stone, and there were no rules. There was nothing to fall back on as to how do you write about this kind of music, so people were trying absolutely everything with a great sense of freedom and experimentation and success and failure, and a feeling of, “My God, people are actually paying attention to this. Let’s pretend they aren’t because we don’t want to be intimidated by what somebody might think of what we’re saying.” PeopleThinkingWantWritingTryingFirstsKindFeelingsMightFallAttentionRecordsStonesPay AttentionEditorsRollingSuccess And FailureIntimidatedExperimentationRolling StonesFall Back Author:Greil Marcus
“I never find myself even catching lyrics until something in the sound has taken me captive. Thinking about anything else is just the pleasurable byproduct of wow.” ThinkingSoundTakenWowCatchingCaptives Author:Greil Marcus