Music Quotes by Nick Hornby

“Well, I'd like my life to be like a Bruce Springsteen song.”

— Nick Hornby

I applied for a job on 'Melody Maker' once.

— Nick Hornby

“Musicians had been assholes since the day the lute was invented.”

— Nick Hornby

Men use music and football to fill up holes in their lives.

— Nick Hornby

It wasn't until 1963 that you would really want to listen to any kind of English music.

— Nick Hornby

I wasted the 1980s. I wasted every minute at Cambridge talking to people who knew more about music than I did.

— Nick Hornby

“What came first, the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because…

— Nick Hornby

“There was the same need for obscurity, the same suspicion that if a piece of music had reached a large number of…

— Nick Hornby

“sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you…

— Nick Hornby

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

People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence…

— Nick Hornby

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

What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I…

— Nick Hornby

“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

And mostly all I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them,…

— Nick Hornby

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

“One can only presume that people who say that their favorite record of all time reminds them of their honeymoon in Corsica,…

— Nick Hornby

“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

Because music, like color, or a cloud, is neither intelligent nor unintelligent - it just is. The chord, the simplest building block…

— Nick Hornby

“How can that not leave you bruised somewhere? How can that not turn you into the sort of person liable to break…

— Nick Hornby

“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

“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

“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

“We have all lived through that shriveling moment when a parent walks into a room and repeats, with sardonic disbelief, a couplet…

— Nick Hornby

That is another chamber of my heart that shows no electrical activity - the chamber that used to flicker into life when…

— Nick Hornby

“Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands, of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.…

— Nick Hornby

“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

“It seems to me that if you place music (and books, probably, and films, and plays, and anything that makes you feel)…

— Nick Hornby

“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

“What came first, the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because…

— Nick Hornby

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

“he was home on his own and listening to the sort of music he needed to listen to when he felt like…

— Nick Hornby

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

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

Indeed, there is a moment on the first CD - the electrifying opening to "I Got Loaded," which sounds like an R&B…

— Nick Hornby

“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

“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

I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words,…

— Nick Hornby

“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

“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