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Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll QUOTES

Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll QUOTES

1 " Every time Elvis sings, he makes a bargain with the devil -- just like Captain Ahab in MOBY DICK! "

― Greil Marcus , Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll

2 " It is only too clear that man is not at home in this universe, and yet he is not good enough to deserve a better. "

― Greil Marcus , Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll

3 " Blues grew out of the need to live in the brutal world that stood ready in ambush the moment one walked out of the church. "

― Greil Marcus , Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll

4 " Most have simply seen and done too much; as the Rolling Stones have been proving for ten years, you have to work for innocence. You have to win it, or you end up with nothing more than a strained naïveté. "

― Greil Marcus , Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll

5 " Wonder made the old chicka-chicka-boom beat so potent it sounded like a syncopated version of Judgment Day. "

― Greil Marcus , Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll

6 " At a deeper level it is a fantasy of no-limits for a people who live within a labyrinth of limits every day of their lives, and who can transgress them only among themselves. "

― Greil Marcus , Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll

7 " You may bury my body, down by the highway side Babe, I don’t care where you bury my body when I’m dead and gone You may bury my body, ooooo, down by the highway side So my old evil spirit Can get a Greyhound bus, and ride. "

― Greil Marcus , Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll

8 " Johnson remains the most emotionally committed of all blues singers; "

― Greil Marcus , Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll

9 " predictable Christmas standards "

― Greil Marcus , Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll

10 " Elvis stopped threatening—not only girls, but the whole of the social order—and began pleading. "

― Greil Marcus , Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll