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Music Quotes by Rob Sheffield

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Rob Sheffield writes that mix‑tapes act like memory capsules, letting old songs bring past moments back to life. He built his whole life around discovering new bands and sounds, working as a music journalist in the late ’80s. He also notes that the world seemed full of music, never running out of fresh tracks.

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But bringing people together is what music has always done best.

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There are all kinds of mix tapes. there is always a reason to make one.

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Monogamous musicians are like vegan hockey players.

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“You Like Music, I Like Music, I Can Tell We’re Going to Be Friends”

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“Nothing connects to the moment like music.”

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When you stick a song on a tape, you set it free.

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“The reality of boy-girl life gets harsh, but in my fantasy, the music keeps them together.”

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I've built my whole life around loving music. I'm a writer for 'Rolling Stone,' so I am constantly searching for new bands…

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I realize that I will never fully understand the millions of bizarre ways that music brings people together.

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Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever.

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“It’s a fundamental human need to pass music around, and however the technology evolves, the music keeps moving.”

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When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.

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“it was just another temporary technological mutation designed to do the same thing music always does, which is allow emotionally warped people…

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“I knew I would have to relearn how to listen to music, and that some of the music we'd loved together I'd…

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“I often took the bus to her apartment, where we drank bourbon and ginger ale, listened to the music we wanted to…

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When I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we were living…

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“We had nothing in common, except we both loved music. It was the first connection we had, and we depended on it…

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The dilemma of the eighth-grade dance is that boys and girls use music in different ways. Girls enjoy music they can dance…

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Ah, the bond between English boys and California girls. For those of us who aren't either, it's a bond that fascinates and…

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“….For instance, I hated Pearl Jam at the time. I thought they were pompous blowhards. Now, whenever a Pearl Jam song comes…

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Movies for adults sucked in the 1980s, and music for adults sucked even worse; whether we're talking about Kathleen Turner flicks or…

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I get sentimental over the music of the ’90s. Deplorable, really. But I love it all. As far as I’m concerned the…

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“bitch power is the juice, the sweat, the blood that keeps pop music going. Rick James helped me understand the lesson of…

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“I have built my entire life around loving music, and I surround myself with it. I’m always racing to catch up on…

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“What I get out of karaoke is a little weirder than mere musical competence. It's a love ritual that keeps me coming…

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If all music did was bring the past alive, that would be fine. You can hide away in music and let it…

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“I get sentimental over the music of the '90s. Deplorable, really. But I love it all. As far as I'm concerned, the…

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“I've never heard of anybody getting rid of their prized Exile postcards, much less actually writing on them and sending them through…

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“Everything was changing, that was obvious. The world was so full of music, it seemed we could never run out. ’Twas bliss…

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“At Camp Don Bosco, there were Bibles all over the place, mostly 1970s hippie versions like Good News for Modern Man. They…

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Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up…

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Nothing connects to the moment like music. I count the music to bring me back, or more precisely, to bring her forward.

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“There are millions of songs in the world, and millions of ways to connect them into mixes. Making the connections is part…

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Both of my books, 'Love Is a Mix Tape' and 'Talking to Girls About Duran Duran,' are about how music gets tangled…

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“It was just a temporary technological mutation designed to do the same thing music always does, which is allow emotionally warped people…

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“The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with—nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape.…

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“We want to freeze the perfect moment, hold on to it, at least long enough to understand it. But it dances on…

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But MTV relishes its vestigial role as a star maker, so every year it puts all its clout into making the VMAs…

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“We couldn't believe how exciting it was to be together, a pair of young Americruisers on a roll. We'd lived for just…

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It's always that one song that gets to you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you.

There are all kinds of mix tapes. there is always a reason to make one.

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“Last fall, I was sitting at the kitchen table of two friends who have been together since 1972. They tell me a story about…

Tonight, I feel like my whole body is made out of memories. I'm a mix-tape, a cassette that's been rewound so many times you…

“You're in a physical landscape you share with this bizarre and fundamentally alien creature, not alien because she's female but alien because you're a…