My love of written language is every bit as great as my love for music. — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
In the worst of times, music is a promise that times are meant to be better. — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
I don't like most world music because you need to know what the words are to really understand it. — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
I believe that writing on music is experienced inside your head, is not a physically present in the world, it has a… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
The first half of 'Book Reports' deals with the history of popular music and rock criticism. When I hooked all those historical… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
One of the things that's happened in the music I love over the past five, 10 years is that some people have… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
I found dozens of albums I loved every year of the early 70s and more in the late 70s and more still… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
Certainly it's much more important for me to go to a good movie and spend a nice night with my wife than… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
The most important single fact about pop music in the Nineties, is the number of hours made commercially available increased by an… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
My wife is more important to me than anything in the world - including music. She's a great editor and companion for… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
When I grew up, there was a monoculture. Everybody listened to the same music on the radio. I miss monoculture. I think… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
I've always been a jazz fan, but I don't write much about jazz, because I don't have the chops. But it's really,… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
I think Theodore Adorno was profoundly ignorant. I think even Adorno's fans think he was bad at understanding popular music. He thought… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
I'm not a musician, I can't read music, but I came from a family of music fans. Not mad music fans, but… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
As a power listener who listens to music between 10 and 14 hours a day and who always has his earphones and… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
Ultimately, to insist that rock criticism be political is first to insist that the humans who make and enjoy music are embroiled… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
The idea with a collection is sort of to begin with a kind of bang. — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
People believe that criticism should be objective, whatever that means, but I really don't understand what people mean by that. I guess if you're… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
“One concept the non-old have trouble getting their minds around is the difference between taste and judgment. It's fine not to like almost anything,… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
You know, criticism began as the province of amateurs, of wealthy men who liked the arts. — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
I believe that writing on music is experienced inside your head, is not a physically present in the world, it has a different kind… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
Chuck Berry's 'Maybellene' hit the airwaves at about the time Alan Freed got to New York, and it was definitely a song I really… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
I don't think it's such a bad idea that people learn the same history in school. I think it tends to ground people and… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
My wife is more important to me than anything in the world - including music. She's a great editor and companion for all of… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
You can only adjust to so much history in your life. I still have trouble texting. — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
I've always been a jazz fan, but I don't write much about jazz, because I don't have the chops. But it's really, really hard… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
There's a musicologist named Peter van der Merwe whose theory is that the blues generates tune families, and that their similarity to each other… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
Anyway, you know, when Richard Meltzer said rock and roll died in '68, what he means is Jefferson Airplane were no longer his buddies,… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
