“As the old saw goes, the Irish songs are full of happy wars and unhappy lovers.” — Rob Sheffield Happy love Copy Share Image
Rock stars did not invent burning out. They just do it louder. — Rob Sheffield Burning Copy Share Image
“But “ma’am” doesn’t translate in the North, where it just startles and offends.” — Rob Sheffield North Copy Share Image
But the rhythm of the mix tape is the rhythm of romance, the analog hum of a physical connection between two sloppy,… — Rob Sheffield Analog Copy Share Image
Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten. — Rob Sheffield Favorite song Copy Share Image
One nice thing about growing up Catholic is it makes you open-minded about other people's religions, since ours is nuttier than yours. — Rob Sheffield Catholic Copy Share Image
“How do you turn down the volume on your personal-drama earphones and learn how to listen to other people?” — Rob Sheffield Listen People Copy Share Image
We all get as miserable as Erika M. Andersen sometimes, but we rarely approach her musical-ideas-per-miserable-minute ratio. — Rob Sheffield Approach Copy Share Image
It's always that one song that gets to you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you. — Rob Sheffield Song Copy Share Image
“I was a wallflower who planned to stay that way, who never imagined anybody else to be.” — Rob Sheffield Imagined Copy Share Image
I've built my whole life around loving music. I'm a writer for 'Rolling Stone,' so I am constantly searching for new bands… — Rob Sheffield Band Copy Share Image
Anyone watching '30 Rock' always knew Tina Fey was playing a fictionalized version of herself, a workaholic comedy writer who also plays… — Rob Sheffield Boss Copy Share Image
When I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we were living… — Rob Sheffield Angst Copy Share Image
“What doesn't kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and full of yourself at the same time.… — Rob Sheffield Full of yourself Copy Share Image
Somtimes you lie in a strange room, in a strange person's home, and you feel yourself bending out of shape. Melting, touching… — Rob Sheffield Bending Copy Share Image
'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album… — Rob Sheffield Album cover Copy Share Image
“I often took the bus to her apartment, where we drank bourbon and ginger ale, listened to the music we wanted to… — Rob Sheffield Drank Copy Share Image
Davy Jones was the grooviest of the Monkees, which makes him one of the grooviest pop stars who ever existed. He was… — Rob Sheffield Accents Copy Share Image
Like many other touchstones of twenty-first-century pop culture, 'The Sopranos' was hatched in the late Nineties, predicting a future that never arrived.… — Rob Sheffield America Copy Share Image
“[H]e asked Renee, “What does rock and roll have today that it didn’t have in the sixties?” Renee said, “Tits,” which in… — Rob Sheffield Hard to believe Copy Share Image
“Getting a Dog: She won this one easily, as I've already mentioned; I thought my graceful surrender would win me a concession… — Rob Sheffield Animal Copy Share Image
“Girls are the White Album and they all have Revolution 9's. They have all that stuff you wish you could edit out.… — Rob Sheffield Fall in love Copy Share Image
“I get sentimental over the music of the '90s. Deplorable, really. But I love it all. As far as I'm concerned, the… — Rob Sheffield Music Copy Share Image
“That’s why I never married. Marriage is lonely, but it ain’t private.” That was always my most intense fear about getting married:… — Rob Sheffield Getting married Copy Share Image
“She also told me about the night one of her astrophysics friends went to a bar trivia contest where the final question… — Rob Sheffield Friendship Copy Share Image
“i’m very expressive. i deserve to feel pretty. i kissed the blarney stone. i am strong. i am brave. im a good… — Rob Sheffield Children Copy Share Image
“Everything was changing, that was obvious. The world was so full of music, it seemed we could never run out. ’Twas bliss… — Rob Sheffield Ended Copy Share Image
Lots of people like Seth MacFarlane. Many other people like watching the Oscars. But nobody likes both, not even Seth MacFarlane, who… — Rob Sheffield Both Copy Share Image
“The reality of boy-girl life gets harsh, but in my fantasy, the music keeps them together.” — Rob Sheffield Life Copy Share Image
'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies. — Rob Sheffield Family Copy Share Image
It was in that bubble after Vatican II when it seemed like the best time ever to grow up Catholic. It was… — Rob Sheffield After Copy Share Image
“And they’re right—what could be scarier, stupider, than staying together? How else could you totally guarantee that you would always have reasons… — Rob Sheffield Terrified Copy Share Image
I realize that I will never fully understand the millions of bizarre ways that music brings people together. — Rob Sheffield Bizarre Copy Share Image
Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing. — Rob Sheffield Flamboyant Copy Share Image
Love dies in many different ways, and it's natural for the grass to seem greener on the other side. But it's not… — Rob Sheffield Competition Copy Share Image
“Human benevolence is totally unfair. We don’t live in a kind or generous world, yet we are kind and generous.” — Rob Sheffield Benevolence Copy Share Image
Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up… — Rob Sheffield Great gatsby Copy Share Image
I will always love the Clash, because I loved them so much when I was fourteen, and I love how you can… — Rob Sheffield Clash Copy Share Image
“Rod exemplifies the attitude that Losing It is no big deal. He saw that fate coming, and he was already planning to… — Rob Sheffield Aging gracefully Copy Share Image
![“[H]e asked Renee, “What does rock and roll have today that it didn’t have in the sixties?” Renee said, “Tits,” which in retrospect strikes me as not a bad one-word off-the-dome answer at all. The nineties fad for indie rock overlapped precisely with the nineties fad for feminism. The idea of a pop…” quote by Rob Sheffield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ced/rob-sheffield-1368_90s-music-feminism-r_h-e-asked-renee-what-does-rock-and-roll_550992.jpg)
