Song Quotes by Robert Christgau

The idea with a collection is sort of to begin with a kind of bang.

— Robert Christgau

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

“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

You know, criticism began as the province of amateurs, of wealthy men who liked the arts.

— Robert Christgau

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

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

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

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

You can only adjust to so much history in your life. I still have trouble texting.

— Robert Christgau

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

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

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