Song Quotes by Nick Hornby

The Internet's changed everything. There are no record stores to hang out in anymore.

— Nick Hornby

I miss independent record stores very much.

— Nick Hornby

“Songwriting is an art distinct from poetry.”

— Nick Hornby

Record stores can't save your life. But they can give you a better one.

— Nick Hornby

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

— 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

I used to go and see the Clash a fair bit. I did think they were dead cool, and very handsome.

— Nick Hornby

“Maybe nobody went to see the Rolling Stones here in 1964,' said Ros. 'The dead shark was just too much fun.”

— 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

Joni Mitchell's someone who has tried to make sense of her own world, sometimes painfully, through song.

— Nick Hornby

“This is the second Simply Red song on this tape. One's unforgivable. Two's a war crime. Can I fast-forward?”

— Nick Hornby

“He wasn’t Ringo, though. He was more like Paul. Maureen was Ringo, except she wasn’t very funny. I was George, except I…

— Nick Hornby

A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You've got to…

— Nick Hornby

I'd like my life to be like a Bruce Springsteen song. Just once. I know I'm not born to run, I know…

— 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

It's just that none of us had the wit or talent to make them into songs. We made them into life, which…

— 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

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

— 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

The truth about autobiographical songs, he realized, was that you had to make the present become the past, somehow: you had to…

— Nick Hornby

He loved Nirvana, but at his age they were kind of a guilty pleasure. All that rage and pain and self-hatred! Will…

— 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

“Everyone knows the song that Millwall fans sing, to the tune of „Sailing”: 'No one likes us/No one likes us/No one likes…

— Nick Hornby

“The best customers are the ones who just have to buy a record on a Saturday, even if there's nothing they really…

— Nick Hornby

“The Marie bit is easy enough to understand, then. The Laura thing takes a bit more explaining, but what it is, I…

— Nick Hornby

“Even though we get a lot of people into the shop, only a small percentage of them buy anything. The best customers…

— 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

“This is a song by Emmylou Harris called ‘Boulder to Birmingham,’” she announces. “It’s on the album Pieces of the Sky, which…

— Nick Hornby