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Dog love is blind. For that matter, dog love is stupid.
— 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.
— Rob Sheffield
I always envied my friends who had older siblings who could guide them through the teenage wasteland.
— Rob Sheffield
But the rhythm of the mix tape is the rhythm of romance, the analog hum of a physical connection between two sloppy, human bodies.
— Rob Sheffield
When you want to start living, what do you do? How do you start? Where do you go? Who do you need to blow?
— Rob Sheffield
Like most fans of 'So You Think You Can Dance,' I wouldn't know a pasodoble if it beat me with a rake.
— Rob Sheffield
The bassist -- always the bassist.
— Rob Sheffield
Sometimes great tunes happen to bad times, and when the bad time is over, not all the tunes get to move on with you.
— Rob Sheffield
Falling in love with Renee was not the kind of thing you walk away from in one piece. I had no chance. She put a hitch in my git-a-long.
— Rob Sheffield
I hear the noise in his voice, and I hear a boy trying to scare the darkness away. I wish I could hear what happened next, but nothing did.
— Rob Sheffield
I realize that I will never fully understand the millions of bizarre ways that music brings people together.
— Rob Sheffield
The radio tape puts you right back in the original time and place when you first heard the songs. You arethere, my friend. — Rob Sheffield
The reality of boy-girl life gets harsh, but in my fantasy, the music keeps them together.
— Rob Sheffield
Rock stars did not invent burning out. They just do it louder.
— Rob Sheffield
If you freak out over trivial everyday grievances, how are you going to handle *real* problems?
— Rob Sheffield
If the girls keep dancing, everybody's happy. If the girls don't dance, nobody's happy.
— Rob Sheffield
Donna Summer would be remembered as a ground-breaking artist today even if she'd retired the day after she recorded 'I Feel Love' in 1977.
— Rob Sheffield
It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing.
— Rob Sheffield
One of Renee's friends asked her, "Does your boyfriend wear glasses?" She said, "No, he wears a Walkman.
— Rob Sheffield
Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they add up to the story of life.
— Rob Sheffield
Don't charge the mound. Once you agree to fight, you lost already. Don't start none, won't be none.
— Rob Sheffield
Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever.
— Rob Sheffield
This is what they call "hitting rock bottom," and they call it that because it rocks.
— Rob Sheffield
I knew I would have to relearn how to listen to music, and that some of the music we'd loved together I'd never be able to hear again.
— Rob Sheffield
It takes only one bad amp to turn your ears to oatmeal: That's how old hippies became Yanni fans.
— Rob Sheffield
Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing.
— Rob Sheffield
Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.
— Rob Sheffield
When you're a Catholic kid, the nuns teach you that when something is annoying you, you "offer it up", as a sacrificial gift.
— Rob Sheffield
Jesus H. Christ on ice and Mary in the penalty box!
— Rob Sheffield
Why are Franz Ferdinand the perfect live band? They just are.
— Rob Sheffield
I didn't know what I was. I didn't have a noun.
— Rob Sheffield
'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.
— Rob Sheffield
They're never technically tapes, but they're always called mix tapes anyway, just because tapes are always cool.
— Rob Sheffield
Celebrity despicability is a precious thing.
— Rob Sheffield
When you stick a song on a tape, you set it free.
— Rob Sheffield
Monogamous musicians are like vegan hockey players.
— Rob Sheffield
'I'll Tumble 4 Ya' has to be one of the most ridiculous hit singles that any international superstars have given the world.
— Rob Sheffield
Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up for me.
— Rob Sheffield
A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.
— Rob Sheffield
When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.
— Rob Sheffield
I was a wallflower who planned to stay that way, who never imagined anybody else to be.
— Rob Sheffield
He sang about girls in space-why not? That's where all the cool girls were. (They weren't where I could find them, that was for sure.)
— Rob Sheffield
Morrissey was my Mrs. Garrett, the house mother from the Facts of Life, a soothing adult figure giving me words of wisdom.
— Rob Sheffield
Human benevolence is totally unfair. We don't live in a kind or generous world, yet we are kind and generous.
— Rob Sheffield
Something I really enjoy about older couples is that they really have given up on getting everything right. They don't sweat the imperfections.
— Rob Sheffield
I was too young to know adult life is full of accidents and interrupted moments and empty beds you climb into and don't climb out of.
— Rob Sheffield
It's a fundamental human need to pass music around, and however the technology evolves, the music keeps moving.
— Rob Sheffield
'Drive,' that's the one. I love dozens of songs by R.E.M., but that's the one, even though it took me 7 or 8 years to start liking it.
— Rob Sheffield
It's always that one song that gets to you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you.
— Rob Sheffield
Renee used to say real life was a bad country song, except bad country songs were believable and real life isn't.
— Rob Sheffield
We all get as miserable as Erika M. Andersen sometimes, but we rarely approach her musical-ideas-per-miserable-minute ratio.
— Rob Sheffield
The hungry feeling and the lonely feeling merged until it was hard to tell them apart.
— Rob Sheffield
I'd shut the whole world down just to tell you
— Rob Sheffield
The songs were all either fast or sad. Because all songs should be either fast or sad.
— Rob Sheffield
Nothing connects to the moment like music. I count the music to bring me back, or more precisely, to bring her forward.
— Rob Sheffield
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.
— Rob Sheffield
I had no voice to talk with because she was my whole language.
— Rob Sheffield
But bringing people together is what music has always done best.
— Rob Sheffield
I grew up on country radio. You know I'm a sucker for that 'we got no money but we got love' crap.
— Rob Sheffield
I was somebody's boyfriend now. This would mean a lot of trial and error. But she was who I wanted to try and err with.
— Rob Sheffield
But the answer is simple. Love is a mix tape.
— Rob Sheffield
I had never gotten the hang of dating - I was always going to be somebody who either had a girlfriend or didn't.
— Rob Sheffield
Thanks for existing, R.E.M. It's hard to overstate how much these guys changed everything, creating an entire rock audience in their own image.
— Rob Sheffield
Girls take up a lot of room. I had a lot of room for this one.
— Rob Sheffield
I was just one of those graves that pretty girls make.
— Rob Sheffield
One nice thing about growing up Catholic is it makes you open-minded about other people's religions, since ours is nuttier than yours.
— Rob Sheffield
One of the billions of things I love about Beyonce: The harder she tries to come on crazy, the less crazy she sounds.
— Rob Sheffield
In my headphones, I led a life of romance and incident and intrigue, none of which had anything to do with the world outside my Walkman.
— Rob Sheffield
My ears rang all the way home and I didn't want them to stop. It made me want to start something.
— Rob Sheffield
I was too scared to talk, but I was more scared to not talk.
— Rob Sheffield
Learning, over and over. The work of love will make you bloody and it will make you lonely.
— Rob Sheffield
You can't beat the beehive for glam punkette attitude.
— Rob Sheffield