“It’s a fundamental human need to pass music around, and however the technology evolves, the music keeps moving.” — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of mix tapes. there is always a reason to make one. — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“You Like Music, I Like Music, I Can Tell We’re Going to Be Friends” — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other. — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
The dilemma of the eighth-grade dance is that boys and girls use music in different ways. Girls enjoy music they can dance… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Ah, the bond between English boys and California girls. For those of us who aren't either, it's a bond that fascinates and… — Rob Sheffield 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 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
“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 Copy Share Image
Both of my books, 'Love Is a Mix Tape' and 'Talking to Girls About Duran Duran,' are about how music gets tangled… — Rob Sheffield 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 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 Copy Share Image
“….For instance, I hated Pearl Jam at the time. I thought they were pompous blowhards. Now, whenever a Pearl Jam song comes… — 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 Copy Share Image
“bitch power is the juice, the sweat, the blood that keeps pop music going. Rick James helped me understand the lesson of… — Rob Sheffield 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 Copy Share Image
“We couldn't believe how exciting it was to be together, a pair of young Americruisers on a roll. We'd lived for just… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“It was just a temporary technological mutation designed to do the same thing music always does, which is allow emotionally warped people… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with—nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape.… — 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
“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 Copy Share Image
Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever. — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
I realize that I will never fully understand the millions of bizarre ways that music brings people together. — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“The reality of boy-girl life gets harsh, but in my fantasy, the music keeps them together.” — 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 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 Copy Share Image
“We had nothing in common, except we both loved music. It was the first connection we had, and we depended on it… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
But MTV relishes its vestigial role as a star maker, so every year it puts all its clout into making the VMAs… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“We want to freeze the perfect moment, hold on to it, at least long enough to understand it. But it dances on… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Movies for adults sucked in the 1980s, and music for adults sucked even worse; whether we're talking about Kathleen Turner flicks or… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“I have built my entire life around loving music, and I surround myself with it. I’m always racing to catch up on… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“I've never heard of anybody getting rid of their prized Exile postcards, much less actually writing on them and sending them through… — Rob Sheffield 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 Copy Share Image
“At Camp Don Bosco, there were Bibles all over the place, mostly 1970s hippie versions like Good News for Modern Man. They… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
One of the best moments of any Liars show is hearing the crowd squawk 'We're doomed! We're doomed!' on cue during 'We Fenced Other… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“I suck at fighting. I have never really learned how to talk and be mad at the same time. If I have angry words… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Morrissey was my Mrs. Garrett, the house mother from the Facts of Life, a soothing adult figure giving me words of wisdom. — Rob Sheffield 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
The hottest trash-disco star in the world: Ke$ha! She has a lot in common with Kiss, actually, even spelling her name with a dollar… — Rob Sheffield 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 her back… — 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. The more… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“But when you're a teenage boy, you can be narrow-minded about things that are girlie, things that are frivolous, things that are pop. Boys… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“I've never heard of anybody getting rid of their prized Exile postcards, much less actually writing on them and sending them through the mail… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
It's always that one song that gets to you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you. — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of mix tapes. there is always a reason to make one. — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“By the time you're an adult, you're used to seeing your friends disappear into their five-year plans. They drop out to get married, have… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
