Song Quotes by Jennifer Egan

9 Song quotes by Jennifer Egan

Jennifer Egan offers nine brief thoughts on Song, each reflecting her modern, layered storytelling. The compact collection provides a quick window into how she weaves musical motifs into her prose.

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I was not a punk rocker, absolutely not, but I certainly knew quite a lot of them, and I definitely went to…

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I was obsessed with The Who. I would have accepted a marriage proposal from Roger Daltrey on the spot. I went to…

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The music industry is an interesting lens through which to look at change, because it has had such a difficult time adjusting…

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I think, for one thing, all of us remember those teenage years and those songs that we fell in love with and…

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Music makes time fall away like almost nothing else. You hear a song from another moment of your life, and it really…

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The pause makes you think the song will end. And then the song isn't really over, so you're relieved. But then the…

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The answers were maddeningly absent—it was like trying to remember a song that you knew made you feel a certain way, without…

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I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate playlist of my teenage years, though…

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Music and time have such an interesting relationship. Music makes time fall away like almost nothing else. You hear a song from…

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I had this idea that I could hire myself out as a person to go on archeological digs and dig, without any training! I…

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I number my drafts, and by the time a book is done, I'll have 75 or 80 drafts of some sections.

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Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want to do.

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