“I still haven't finished unpacking - by the time I do, it'll be time to move again.” — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“Some of us are born Gladys Knights, and some of us are born Pips.” — Rob Sheffield Knights Copy Share Image
“You Like Music, I Like Music, I Can Tell We’re Going to Be Friends” — Rob Sheffield Friends Copy Share Image
The hungry feeling and the lonely feeling merged until it was hard to tell them apart. — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“I felt indestructible, or at least undestroyed, more alive than I'd ever been.” — Rob Sheffield Alive Copy Share Image
“It’s a fundamental human need to pass music around, and however the technology evolves, the music keeps moving.” — Rob Sheffield Music Copy Share Image
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… — Rob Sheffield Audience Copy Share Image
It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing. — Rob Sheffield Brave Copy Share Image
'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… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
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… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever. — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“The radio tape puts you right back in the original time and place when you first heard the songs. You are there,… — Rob Sheffield Original Copy Share Image
One of Renee's friends asked her, "Does your boyfriend wear glasses?" She said, "No, he wears a Walkman. — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
The 2000s were the time when bromance became a kind of love that dared to speak its name. As a high-water mark… — Rob Sheffield Bff Copy Share Image
Just as Bowie, Zeppelin, etc., became rock stars by remaking themselves in the image of the California girls, the Go-Gos became rock… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“For all karaoke freaks around the nation, “Total Eclipse of the Heart” is one of those sacred anthems. It’s the kind of… — Rob Sheffield Karaoke Copy Share Image
“You lose a certain kind of innocence when you experience this type of kindness. You lose your right to be a jaded… — Rob Sheffield Cynic Copy Share Image
God bless America - what other civilization would give Patrick Dempsey another shot to rule as a sex symbol, twenty years after… — Rob Sheffield America Copy Share Image
“We have individual geekdoms that we've turned the other one on to and individual geekdoms we prefer to enjoy alone. There are… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
The dilemma of the eighth-grade dance is that boys and girls use music in different ways. Girls enjoy music they can dance… — Rob Sheffield Boy and girl Copy Share Image
“So you get less shy about how hard you have to try. And you don't bother hiding your Kotter tapes. Sure, they… — Rob Sheffield Love Copy Share Image
“I thought, there is nowhere else in the universe I would rather be at this moment... There is nowhere else I could… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“Falling in love with Renée was not the kind of thing you walk away from in one piece. I had no chance.… — Rob Sheffield Falling in love Copy Share Image
The Word 'Repulse': I hate this word. I believe 'repel' is a perfectly good word, and 'repulsion' is the noun, as well… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“Did I learn anything? No way. But all the things you want to learn from grief turn out to be the total… — Rob Sheffield Death Copy Share Image
“To enter into that karaoke mindset, you have to leave behind all your notions of good or bad, right or wrong, in… — Rob Sheffield Karaoke Copy Share Image
“I suck at fighting. I have never really learned how to talk and be mad at the same time. If I have… — Rob Sheffield Angry words Copy Share Image
“Neither of us ever threw anything away. We made a lot of mix tapes while we were together. Tapes for making out,… — Rob Sheffield Falling asleep Copy Share Image
“I have built my entire life around loving music, and I surround myself with it. I’m always racing to catch up on… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“Renée and I met at a bar called the Eastern Standard in Charlottesville, Virginia. I had just moved there to study English… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“What is love? Great minds have been grappling with this question through the ages, and in the modern era, they have come… — Rob Sheffield Elementary school Copy Share Image
“ Roller Boogie is a relic from - when else? - the '70s. This is a tape I made for the eight-grade… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“on the 11th of every month my friend elizabeth would say, "well we made it through another month. so do we get… — Rob Sheffield Anniversary Copy Share Image
“Don't go home with that magic man! I wanted to shake my Walkman, warn the Heart girls to run away. Don't trust… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“I was reading a poem by my idol, Wallace Stevens, in which he said, ‘The self is a cloister of remembered sounds.’… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“Last fall, I was sitting at the kitchen table of two friends who have been together since 1972. They tell me a… — Rob Sheffield Halloween party Copy Share Image
“At Camp Don Bosco, there were Bibles all over the place, mostly 1970s hippie versions like Good News for Modern Man. They… — Rob Sheffield Bible Copy Share Image
