Greil Marcus

"Obsessive Memories," essay on memory and his father, Greil Gerstley, who died in World War II."

"While it's well known that as one gets older, one tends to find changes in the world at large unsettling, confusing, fucking irritating, a rebuke to one's very existence, it's generally not a good ide…"

"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 canceled."

"...as I write, Johnny Rotten's first moments in "Anarchy in the U.K."–a rolling earthquake of a laugh, a buried shout, then hoary words somehow stripped of all claptrap and set down in the city street…"

"Complete freedom meant — no one knew. It was most readily defined in the negative: not this gap between the heaven promised in the new advertisements and the everyday satisfactions I can buy. Not the …"

"Video interview with Greil Marcus on "The Shape of Things to Come" on The Alcove with Mark Molaro"

"Exchange with Greil Marcus at rockcritics.com"

"Van Morrison remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music."