Greil Marcus Quotes

If you just sit on what you've created, chances are you're not going to be around much longer.

When you have such a huge past, a big background as we have, you can play off that - a lot of people do. But we felt we wouldn't have a legitimate future unless we put something new together.

Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.

The antidote to stagnation is innovation.

I am really not interested or excited by repeating former successes.

The only way to thrive is to innovate. It's that simple.

My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

When you are through changing, you are through.

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

The whole concept behind 'Forty Chances' is really a mindset: If everybody thought they had to put themselves out of business in 40 years, you had 40 chances to succeed in what your primary goals are, you would probably be more urgent and you would be forced to change quicker.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.

Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull.

As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on.

Novelty even is useful if a general opinion prevails that the old way is bad.