Rob Sheffield Quotes
Top 85 wise famous quotes and sayings by Rob Sheffield
Rob Sheffield Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
I always envied my friends who had older siblings who could guide them through the teenage wasteland.
But the rhythm of the mix tape is the rhythm of romance, the analog hum of a physical connection between two sloppy, human bodies.
When you want to start living, what do you do? How do you start? Where do you go? Who do you need to blow?
Like most fans of 'So You Think You Can Dance,' I wouldn't know a pasodoble if it beat me with a rake.
Sometimes great tunes happen to bad times, and when the bad time is over, not all the tunes get to move on with you.
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.
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.
I realize that I will never fully understand the millions of bizarre ways that music brings people together.
The radio tape puts you right back in the original time and place when you first heard the songs. You are
there, my friend.
there, my friend.
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.
It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing.
One of Renee's friends asked her, "Does your boyfriend wear glasses?" She said, "No, he wears a Walkman.
Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever.
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.
Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing.
Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.
When you're a Catholic kid, the nuns teach you that when something is annoying you, you "offer it up", as a sacrificial gift.
'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.
They're never technically tapes, but they're always called mix tapes anyway, just because tapes are always cool.
'I'll Tumble 4 Ya' has to be one of the most ridiculous hit singles that any international superstars have given the world.
Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up for me.
I've built my whole life around loving music. I'm a writer for 'Rolling Stone,' so I am constantly searching for new bands and soaking up new sounds.
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.)
Morrissey was my Mrs. Garrett, the house mother from the Facts of Life, a soothing adult figure giving me words of wisdom.
Human benevolence is totally unfair. We don't live in a kind or generous world, yet we are kind and generous.
Something I really enjoy about older couples is that they really have given up on getting everything right. They don't sweat the imperfections.
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.
It's a fundamental human need to pass music around, and however the technology evolves, the music keeps moving.
'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.
Renee used to say real life was a bad country song, except bad country songs were believable and real life isn't.
We all get as miserable as Erika M. Andersen sometimes, but we rarely approach her musical-ideas-per-miserable-minute ratio.
Nothing connects to the moment like music. I count the music to bring me back, or more precisely, to bring her forward.
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.
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.
I had never gotten the hang of dating - I was always going to be somebody who either had a girlfriend or didn't.
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.
One nice thing about growing up Catholic is it makes you open-minded about other people's religions, since ours is nuttier than yours.
One of the billions of things I love about Beyonce: The harder she tries to come on crazy, the less crazy she sounds.
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.