Rob Sheffield quotes

Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever. (Rob Sheffield)

Davy Jones was the grooviest of the Monkees, which makes him one of the grooviest pop stars who ever existed. He was the best dancer in the Monkees, the Cute One, the one with the coy English accent, the bowl-cut boy-child who shook those cherry-red maracas and always got the girl. He was also the guy who stole David Bowie's original name.

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But bringing people together is what music has always done best.

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You know the Prince song where the girl's phone rings but she tells him, "whoever's calling couldn't be as cute as you?" I long to live out this moment in real life.

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A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.

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Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.

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There are all kinds of mix tapes. there is always a reason to make one.

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It's always that one song that gets to you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you.

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I realize that I will never fully understand the millions of bizarre ways that music brings people together.

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I get sentimental over the music of the '90s. Deplorable, really. But I love it all. As far as I'm concerned the '90s was the best era for music ever, even the stuff that I loathed at the time, even the stuff that gave me stomach cramps.

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But the answer is simple. Love is a mix tape. (Rob Sheffield)

Nothing connects to the moment like music. I count the music to bring me back, or more precisely, to bring her forward.

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Love dies in many different ways, and it's natural for the grass to seem greener on the other side. But it's not a competition; there's plenty of pain to go around.

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When you stick a song on a tape, you set it free.

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Sometimes great tunes happen to bad times, and when the bad time is over, not all the tunes get to move on with you.

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I didn't know what I was. I didn't have a noun.

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The hungry feeling and the lonely feeling merged until it was hard to tell them apart.

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Girls take up a lot of room. I had a lot of room for this one.

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It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing.

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... some people aren't worth the trouble of being kind to, because they have neither the brains nor the power to make something for themselves out of your kindness.

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Celebrity despicability is a precious thing. (Rob Sheffield)

Every moment of my life has a soundtrack, so I never know when some song is going to jump me by surprise and bring the memory alive.

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Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning.

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One nice thing about growing up Catholic is it makes you open-minded about other people's religions, since ours is nuttier than yours.

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Every American wants a clean slate, but nobody wants to lose what they've got.

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Rob Sheffield

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Photo: David Shankbone, CC BY-SA 3.0

Occupation: American Journalist
Born: February 2, 1966
Quotes count: 100

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