I believe an editor's job is to help a writer sound like himself or herself. — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
I actually think I learned to write concisely working for an encyclopedia company in Chicago. — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
My love of written language is every bit as great as my love for music. — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
If you wanna write non-fiction you have to be interested in the world. — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
As the editor at the Village Voice, I always tried to find writers of colour. — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
I believe that writing on music is experienced inside your head, is not a physically present in the world, it has a… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
I'm not happy that death is approaching because I like being alive but I'm glad I've escaped the two-post-a-day economy of contemporary… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
My wife is more important to me than anything in the world - including music. She's a great editor and companion for… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
I think I've had a certain amount of success at making phrases. I'm a good writer. But obviously, I'm incredibly flattered and… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
Once people write criticism about something - and even in 1967 I was far from alone - they're assuming it's art, and… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
Believe me, I think if I stopped writing when I left The Voice I would have quite a legacy. But the fact… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
The Village Voice gave me an outlet. They encouraged writers to publish idiosyncratic, intellectually ambitious journalism in voices that ranged from demonic… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
Subject is very important. If you're going to write non-fiction the style means nothing or very little. The content justifies the effort… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
What helps change bad writing into mediocre writing is editing. Editing is in bad shape in print journalism, and is in virtually… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
The idea with a collection is sort of to begin with a kind of bang. — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
You know, criticism began as the province of amateurs, of wealthy men who liked the arts. — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You can only adjust to so much history in your life. I still have trouble texting. — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
