Quotes from Grant Maxwell

And this secret life itself spoke to me: "Behold," it said, "I am that which must always overcome itself." Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra[1] Only someone who has overcome himself is truly able to overcome. Jean Gebser, The Ever-Present Origin[2]

Rock and roll was not just a revolution in musical style; it was a primary embodiment of a transformation in the way many people, in America and elsewhere, lived, felt about, and thought about their lives and their relation to immediate experience.

In principle new points of view are not as a rule discovered in territory that is already known, but in out-of-the-way places that may even be avoided because of their bad name. C.G. Jung, Synchronicity[26]

As Palmer observes: "Plato warned in his Republic that changes in the modes and rhythms of popular music inevitably lead to changes in society at large,"[100] and this originary moment of rock and roll seems to be one of the clearest cases in musical history of a fundamentally new rhythmic, and thus affective, mode catalyzing an equally fundamental cultural transformation.