Rock & roll fan that I am, Thelonious Monk is probably my favorite musical artist. — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
My love of written language is every bit as great as my love for music. — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
In the worst of times, music is a promise that times are meant to be better. — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
Chuck Berry's 'Maybellene' hit the airwaves at about the time Alan Freed got to New York, and it was definitely a song… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
I think Theodore Adorno was profoundly ignorant. I think even Adorno's fans think he was bad at understanding popular music. He thought… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
I'm not a musician, I can't read music, but I came from a family of music fans. Not mad music fans, but… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
If rock criticism is to be a political calling, which has always been my angle, that's obviously not because it's a fountainhead… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
As a power listener who listens to music between 10 and 14 hours a day and who always has his earphones and… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
I've always been a jazz fan, but I don't write much about jazz, because I don't have the chops. But it's really,… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
People believe that criticism should be objective, whatever that means, but I really don't understand what people mean by that. I guess if you're… — Robert Christgau Copy Share
“One concept the non-old have trouble getting their minds around is the difference between taste and judgment. It's fine not to like almost anything,… — Robert Christgau Copy Share
You know, criticism began as the province of amateurs, of wealthy men who liked the arts. — Robert Christgau Copy Share
I believe that writing on music is experienced inside your head, is not a physically present in the world, it has a different kind… — Robert Christgau Copy Share
Chuck Berry's 'Maybellene' hit the airwaves at about the time Alan Freed got to New York, and it was definitely a song I really… — Robert Christgau Copy Share
I don't think it's such a bad idea that people learn the same history in school. I think it tends to ground people and… — Robert Christgau Copy Share
My wife is more important to me than anything in the world - including music. She's a great editor and companion for all of… — Robert Christgau Copy Share
You can only adjust to so much history in your life. I still have trouble texting. — Robert Christgau Copy Share
I've always been a jazz fan, but I don't write much about jazz, because I don't have the chops. But it's really, really hard… — Robert Christgau Copy Share
There's a musicologist named Peter van der Merwe whose theory is that the blues generates tune families, and that their similarity to each other… — Robert Christgau Copy Share
Anyway, you know, when Richard Meltzer said rock and roll died in '68, what he means is Jefferson Airplane were no longer his buddies,… — Robert Christgau Copy Share
I basically believe that all pop stars create personas and manipulate them. What we relate to are not their real selves; they are projections,… — Robert Christgau Copy Share
My personal experience has been that in my free bohemian subculture, I'm not unique. — Robert Christgau Copy Share
