“As the old saw goes, the Irish songs are full of happy wars and unhappy lovers.” — Rob Sheffield Happy love Copy Share Image
“When you want to start living, what do you do? How do you start? Where do you go?” — Rob Sheffield Life Copy Share Image
“I believe that when you’re making a mix, you’re making history.” — Rob Sheffield History Copy Share Image
The hungry feeling and the lonely feeling merged until it was hard to tell them apart. — Rob Sheffield Feelings Copy Share Image
“I felt indestructible, or at least undestroyed, more alive than I'd ever been.” — Rob Sheffield Alive Copy Share Image
“Learning, over and over. The work of love will make you bloody and it will make you lonely.” — Rob Sheffield Bloody 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
“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 Date 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 Ears 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 Boyfriend 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
Lots of people like Seth MacFarlane. Many other people like watching the Oscars. But nobody likes both, not even Seth MacFarlane, who… — Rob Sheffield Both Copy Share Image
I've built my whole life around loving music. I'm a writer for 'Rolling Stone,' so I am constantly searching for new bands… — Rob Sheffield Band Copy Share Image
Big Star invented a vision of bohemian rock & roll cool that had nothing to do with New York, Los Angeles or… — Rob Sheffield Also Copy Share Image
You'd think if anyone could charm America into caring about the evening news, it would be Katie Couric, the Tri Delt from… — Rob Sheffield America Copy Share Image
Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in 'Veep.' She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath her patrician finesse. The obvious way… — Rob Sheffield Claws Copy Share Image
One of the things that make Liars so fascinating after five albums, each one so completely different from the others, is that… — Rob Sheffield After Copy Share Image
Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with… — Rob Sheffield Balls Copy Share Image
“You have blundered into an adult existence you don't understand, and you can't tell whether you planned it this way or whether… — Rob Sheffield Life Copy Share Image
'The Voice' has lots of singers who fit the 'Idol' mold of young, innocent ingenues with psycho stage moms. But it also… — Rob Sheffield Add Copy Share Image
“I felt knots untie themselves, knots I didn't know were there. I could already tell there were things happening deep inside of… — Rob Sheffield Falling in love 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 Bad time 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 Dylan Copy Share Image
“I get sentimental over the music of the '90s. Deplorable, really. But I love it all. As far as I'm concerned, the… — 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… — Rob Sheffield Hard to believe Copy Share Image
“Everything was changing, that was obvious. The world was so full of music, it seemed we could never run out. ’Twas bliss… — Rob Sheffield Ended Copy Share Image
“I kept thinking of an old Robert Mitchum cowboy movie where he goes back to see the farmhouse where he was born… — Rob Sheffield Cowboy movie Copy Share Image
“Her universe is such a big place full of so many galaxies-100 billion of them with 100 billion stars apiece which means… — Rob Sheffield Astronomy 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
“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
“I was reading a poem by my idol, Wallace Stevens, in which he said, ‘The self is a cloister of remembered sounds.’… — Rob Sheffield Opposite direction 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
“Back home, my favorite part of Mass was during communion, when I'd stand at the rail and hold a little gold platter… — Rob Sheffield Brothers and sisters Copy Share Image
“Trying to live in the past didn't work for me, and it's only now that I fully realize I'm incredibly lucky it… — Rob Sheffield Happy memories Copy Share Image
“Listening to it now is like a personally guided tour through my past.” — Rob Sheffield Past Copy Share Image
Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they add up to the story of life. — Rob Sheffield Life 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/quotes/img-quotes/ced/rob-sheffield-1368_90s-music-feminism-r_h-e-asked-renee-what-does-rock-and-roll_550992.jpg)
