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 Catholic Copy Share Image
“That same power translates everywhere, all around the world, because nothing expresses joy like singing together.” — Rob Sheffield Around the world Copy Share Image
It takes only one bad amp to turn your ears to oatmeal: That's how old hippies became Yanni fans. — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“I always envied my friends who had older siblings who could guide them through the teenage wasteland.” — Rob Sheffield Brother Copy Share Image
“I was somebody's boyfriend now. This would mean a lot of trial and error. But she was who I wanted to try… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“There are millions of songs in the world, and millions of ways to connect them into mixes. Making the connections is part… — Rob Sheffield Music Copy Share Image
'Revenge' is a shameless soap in the style of Eighties shoulder-pad slap-offs like 'Dallas,' 'Dynasty' and 'Falcon Crest.' Yet there's no wink-wink… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
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… — Rob Sheffield Body Copy Share Image
Like many other touchstones of twenty-first-century pop culture, 'The Sopranos' was hatched in the late Nineties, predicting a future that never arrived.… — Rob Sheffield America Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you lie in a strange room, in a strange person’s home, and you feel yourself bending out of shape. Melting, touching… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Davy Jones was the grooviest of the Monkees, which makes him one of the grooviest pop stars who ever existed. He was… — Rob Sheffield Accents Copy Share Image
“I often took the bus to her apartment, where we drank bourbon and ginger ale, listened to the music we wanted to… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
When I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we were living… — Rob Sheffield Angst Copy Share Image
'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Somtimes you lie in a strange room, in a strange person's home, and you feel yourself bending out of shape. Melting, touching… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“What doesn't kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and full of yourself at the same time.… — Rob Sheffield Full of yourself Copy Share Image
“[H]e asked Renee, “What does rock and roll have today that it didn’t have in the sixties?” Renee said, “Tits,” which in… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“Getting a Dog: She won this one easily, as I've already mentioned; I thought my graceful surrender would win me a concession… — Rob Sheffield Animal Copy Share Image
If all music did was bring the past alive, that would be fine. You can hide away in music and let it… — Rob Sheffield Alive Copy Share Image
“I believe that when you’re making a mix, you’re making history. You ransack the vaults, you haul off all the junk you… — Rob Sheffield Art Copy Share Image
“The things that bring couples together will always terrify me more than the things that tear us apart. They will always be… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“What I get out of karaoke is a little weirder than mere musical competence. It's a love ritual that keeps me coming… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“No worries" is the best thing to happen to sullen teenagers since I was one - even better than vampire sexting, GTL,… — Rob Sheffield Fear Copy Share Image
“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 Country Copy Share Image
Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Nothing connects to the moment like music. I count the music to bring me back, or more precisely, to bring her forward. — Rob Sheffield Moments Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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… — Rob Sheffield Cool girl Copy Share Image
It was like trying to break up with the color orange, or Wednesday, or silent e. It was the most passionate and… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“I had no voice to talk with because she was my whole language. Without her to talk to, there was nothing to… — Rob Sheffield Lovers Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
One of the billions of things I love about Beyonce: The harder she tries to come on crazy, the less crazy she… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“I knew I would have to relearn how to listen to music, and that some of the music we'd loved together I'd… — Rob Sheffield Music Copy Share Image
“My ears rang all the way home and I didn't want them to stop. It made me want to start something.” — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
It's kind of amazing how popular 'Grey's Anatomy' is. What other show can boast such an annoyingly sincere cast of doctors, sniveling… — Rob Sheffield Anatomy Copy Share Image
“I was too young to know adult life is full of accidents and interrupted moments and empty beds you climb into and… — Rob Sheffield Accidents Copy Share Image
When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other. — Rob Sheffield Death Copy Share Image
“Learning, over and over. The work of love will make you bloody and it will make you lonely.” — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all. — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“it was just another temporary technological mutation designed to do the same thing music always does, which is allow emotionally warped people… — Rob Sheffield Music Copy Share Image
![“[H]e asked Renee, “What does rock and roll have today that it didn’t have in the sixties?” Renee said, “Tits,” which in retrospect strikes me as not a bad one-word off-the-dome answer at all. The nineties fad for indie rock overlapped precisely with the nineties fad for feminism. The idea of a pop…” quote by Rob Sheffield](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ced/rob-sheffield-1368_hard-to-believe_h-e-asked-renee-what-does-rock-and-roll_550992.jpg)
