Creativity Quote by Marc Bolan

“I feel there is a curse on rock stars” lands less like superstition than like a weary status report from inside the machinery of fame. Coming from Marc Bolan - a glam architect who watched his own myth inflate in real time - the line reads as both self-protective and eerily diagnostic. He’s not claiming literal magic; he’s naming a pattern that felt statistically unavoidable in the 1970s: sudden ascents, chemical accelerants, punishing tours, predatory entourages, and the industry’s quiet expectation that your body is collateral.

The genius of “curse” is how it shifts blame without absolving anyone. It externalizes the danger (“it happens to us”) while implicitly indicting a system built to monetize risk. If the rock star is “cursed,” then the chaos isn’t just bad decisions; it’s a job description. Bolan’s phrasing also carries a kind of survivor’s guilt. By the mid-’70s, the culture had already started treating dead musicians as romantic artifacts. To call it a curse is to push back against that aesthetic - to admit fear, to puncture the cool.

Context sharpens the line into premonition. Bolan died in a car crash at 29, in the same era that turned Joplin, Hendrix, and Morrison into an unofficial roll call. The quote reads now like an attempt to demythologize the myth: not “live fast, die young,” but “something about this life is engineered to end you.”