“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“Years and years ago, I read a great interview with Jam and Lewis, the R&B producers, in which they described what it… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You've got to kick off with a corker, to hold the… — 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
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
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
