Rob Sheffield Quotes
When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.
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.
Tonight, I feel like my whole body is made out of memories. I'm a mix-tape, a cassette that's been rewound so many times you can hear the fingerprints smudged on the tape.
Anyone watching '30 Rock' always knew Tina Fey was playing a fictionalized version of herself, a workaholic comedy writer who also plays one on TV. She's the boss; Liz Lemon just works here.
Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.
But bringing people together is what music has always done best.
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.
You can hear the Celtic heartbeat all over Europe and America, from Bing Crosby to Jack White, from the Smiths to My Bloody Valentine, from House of Pain to Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch.
There are all kinds of mix tapes. there is always a reason to make one.
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.
It was like trying to break up with the color orange, or Wednesday, or silent e. It was the most passionate and tumultuous relationship I'd ever known.
It takes only one bad amp to turn your ears to oatmeal: That's how old hippies became Yanni fans.
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.
Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they add up to the story of life.
It's kind of amazing how popular 'Grey's Anatomy' is. What other show can boast such an annoyingly sincere cast of doctors, sniveling through such perfunctory love triangles?
I realize that I will never fully understand the millions of bizarre ways that music brings people together.
It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing.
Monogamous musicians are like vegan hockey players.
One of Renee's friends asked her, "Does your boyfriend wear glasses?" She said, "No, he wears a Walkman.
A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.
I was totally clueless about social interaction, and completely scared of girls. All I knew was that music was going to make girls fall in love with me.
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.
Ronnie Spector's hair was taller and meaner and scarier than all four Shangri-La's combined, plus the drummer from the Honeycombs. You just know her rat-tail comb was a switchblade.
Our amour fou with 'The Sopranos' is headed for long-term parking, like so many of its most memorable characters. We'll never see a show like this again.
Nothing connects to the moment like music. I count the music to bring me back, or more precisely, to bring her forward.
Most of an award-show host's job is showing up and keeping a cool head and soldiering through it, whether it's the Oscars or the Hallmark Channel's 'Hero Dog Awards.'
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.
One of the billions of things I love about Beyonce: The harder she tries to come on crazy, the less crazy she sounds.
'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.
Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing.
We all get as miserable as Erika M. Andersen sometimes, but we rarely approach her musical-ideas-per-miserable-minute ratio.
I will always love the Clash, because I loved them so much when I was fourteen, and I love how you can start a conversation with almost literally any dude about the Clash.
'I'll Tumble 4 Ya' has to be one of the most ridiculous hit singles that any international superstars have given the world.
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.
One nice thing about growing up Catholic is it makes you open-minded about other people's religions, since ours is nuttier than yours.
Like most fans of 'So You Think You Can Dance,' I wouldn't know a pasodoble if it beat me with a rake.
Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up for me.
It's always that one song that gets to you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you.
Sometimes great tunes happen to bad times, and when the bad time is over, not all the tunes get to move on with you.
But the rhythm of the mix tape is the rhythm of romance, the analog hum of a physical connection between two sloppy, human bodies.
If the girls keep dancing, everybody's happy. If the girls don't dance, nobody's happy.
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.
'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.
