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
“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
“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
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
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?People worry about kids playing with guns,or watching violent videos,that some sort of culture of… — 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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
