It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.
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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 Marcus
He sounds like he's been doing it for years. In his head he probably has.
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It works on its own terms. It puts you on the spot. It asks of you the fear and courage that it asks of its subject.
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We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours -- it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it.
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Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits.
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No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.
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