“There was the same need for obscurity, the same suspicion that if a piece of music had reached a large number of… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
It wasn't until 1963 that you would really want to listen to any kind of English music. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“What came first, the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I wasted the 1980s. I wasted every minute at Cambridge talking to people who knew more about music than I did. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
It's just that romance, with its dips and turns and glooms and highs, its swoops and swoons and blues, is a natural… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I only read the very best music books. Donald Fagan's memoir 'Eminent Hipsters' is great. Bob Dylan's memoir 'Chronicles' and Patty Smith's… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I didn't really want to write about music very much in 'High Fidelity.' I wanted to write about the relationship stuff, and… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
And mostly all I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“I'd saw there were millions like me, but there aren't, really: lots of blokes have impeccable music taste but don't read, lots… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“One can only presume that people who say that their favorite record of all time reminds them of their honeymoon in Corsica,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“But there was an important and essential truth contained in the idea, and the truth was that these things matter, and it’s… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Last month I was banging on about how books were better than anything—-how just about any decent book you picked would beat… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“How can that not leave you bruised somewhere? How can that not turn you into the sort of person liable to break… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“What came first--the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Because music, like color, or a cloud, is neither intelligent nor unintelligent - it just is. The chord, the simplest building block… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“What came first the music or the misery?People worry about kids playing with guns,or watching violent videos,that some sort of culture of… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
That is another chamber of my heart that shows no electrical activity - the chamber that used to flicker into life when… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands, of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“We have all lived through that shriveling moment when a parent walks into a room and repeats, with sardonic disbelief, a couplet… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that if you place music (and books, probably, and films, and plays, and anything that makes you feel)… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Dave and Serge...played the Fiddler's Elbow as if it were Giants Stadium, and even though it was acoustic, they just about blew… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“What came first, the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“We hate Simple Minds. They were no.1 in our Top Five Bands or Musicians who will have to be shot come the… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Do I want to be like him? Not really, I don't think. But I find myself worrying away at that stuff about… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“he was home on his own and listening to the sort of music he needed to listen to when he felt like… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Indeed, there is a moment on the first CD - the electrifying opening to "I Got Loaded," which sounds like an R&B… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
There's music every day. I don't think I could write without it. Not that I listen while I'm writing. It's more hearing… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“It's music rage, which is like road rage, only more righteous. When you get road rage, a tiny part of you knows… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Of course Tucker Crowe was in pain when he made [the record], but he couldn't just march into a recording studio and… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Is it wrong, wanting to be at home with your record collection? It's not like collecting records is like collecting stamps, or… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I have the same interests as women. Well, apart from football and music, obviously. I've always had as many female friends as… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
You can wait forever for the muse to sit on your shoulder, but most of the time you know what has to be done… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
…I've had a bad week." What's happened?" Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“When they – I cannot bring myself to use the first-person plural in this instance.” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“What you don't ever catch a glimpse of on your wedding day - because how could you? - is that some days you will… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You've got to kick off… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I'm still not a very good white wine, but I'm drinkable - you could put me in a punch, anyway. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I never mind the accusations of domesticity, as long as people recognise that all of us, even the luckiest, will live lives in which… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I wasted the 1980s. I wasted every minute at Cambridge talking to people who knew more about music than I did. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“I took her outside on to a little roof terrace that looked like it never got the sun at nay time of the day… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“I feel as though I have been having conversations like this all my life. None of us is young anymore, but what has just… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Read any women's magazine and you'll see the same complaint over and over again: men - those little boys ten or twenty or thirty… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
![“Of course Tucker Crowe was in pain when he made [the record], but he couldn't just march into a recording studio and start howling. He'd have sounded mad and pathetic. He had to calm the rage, tame it and shape it so that it could be contained in the tight-fitting songs. Then he had to dress it up…” quote by Nick Hornby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4b0/nick-hornby-325_art_of-course-tucker-crowe-was-in-pain-when_2015950.jpg)
