Chuck Klosterman Quotes

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• And all I could do while I listened to this dude tell me how punk rock saved his life was think, Wow. Why did my…
• The worst thing you can do to anybody trying to be creative is to demand participation in their vision.
• Contrary to what you may have heard from Henry Rollins or/and Ian MacKaye and/or anyone else who joined a band after working in an ice…
• Styx and The Stones may break my bones but 'More than Words' will never hurt me
• Even eternally free people are enslaved by the process of living.
• I tend to equate sadness with intelligence.
• Soccer is like punk rock: The product is not necessarily terrible. The problem is the fan base.
• The biggest problem in rock journalism is that often the writers main motivation is to become friends with the band. Theyre not really journalists; theyre…
• The most wretched people in the world are those who tell you they like every kind of music 'except country.' People who say that are…
• People who are wrong during particularly important moments inevitably spend the rest of their lives trying to explain how their wrongness was paradoxically correct, or-at…
• [On political correctness:] Any intended message mattered less than the received message, and every received message could be interpreted in whatever way the receiver wanted.
• What's hard to do is describe why you like something. Because ultimately, the reason things move people is very amorphous. You can be cerebral about…
• That's like comparing apples with hermaphroditic ground sloths.
• If you're doing an interview, you need conversational tension. After you talk to them, you're not going to have a relationship with them, they're not…
• I cannot imagine the type of sinister fiend who would be against the library. A library essentially says, 'Look, here is some free information that…
• The biggest hurdle to writing Fargo Rock City was that I couldn't afford a home computer - I had to get a new job so…
• Do you know people who insist they like 'all kinds of music'? That actually means they like no kinds of music.
• Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as…
• I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing is by far the most enjoyable. Really the only thing…
• I want fake love. But that's all I want, and that's why I can't have it.

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