“You have blundered into an adult existence you don't understand, and you can't tell whether you planned it this way or whether… — Rob Sheffield Life 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 Copy Share Image
“….For instance, I hated Pearl Jam at the time. I thought they were pompous blowhards. Now, whenever a Pearl Jam song comes… — Rob Sheffield Humor 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
“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
“Back home, my favorite part of Mass was during communion, when I'd stand at the rail and hold a little gold platter… — Rob Sheffield Brothers and sisters Copy Share Image
Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with… — Rob Sheffield Balls 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
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
“To enter into that karaoke mindset, you have to leave behind all your notions of good or bad, right or wrong, in… — Rob Sheffield Musical instruments Copy Share Image
“The Replacements made me feel a little less scared, because they made good imaginary friends. They looked like a band that would… — Rob Sheffield Friendship Copy Share Image
Just as Bowie, Zeppelin, etc., became rock stars by remaking themselves in the image of the California girls, the Go-Gos became rock… — Rob Sheffield Bowie Copy Share Image
“The country singers understand. It’s always that one song that gets you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you.… — Rob Sheffield Country singer Copy Share Image
“I kept thinking of an old Robert Mitchum cowboy movie where he goes back to see the farmhouse where he was born… — Rob Sheffield Cowboy movie Copy Share Image
Donna Summer would be remembered as a ground-breaking artist today even if she'd retired the day after she recorded 'I Feel Love'… — Rob Sheffield Art Copy Share Image
That's the rub about 'Community' - for all the high-concept cleverness, it really comes down to vulgar humanism, the dumbest kind of… — Rob Sheffield About Copy Share Image
“It was just a temporary technological mutation designed to do the same thing music always does, which is allow emotionally warped people… — Rob Sheffield Music Copy Share Image
“When you want to start living, what do you do? How do you start? Where do you go?” — Rob Sheffield Life Copy Share Image
“We have individual geekdoms that we've turned the other one on to and individual geekdoms we prefer to enjoy alone. There are… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“I was reading a poem by my idol, Wallace Stevens, in which he said, ‘The self is a cloister of remembered sounds.’… — Rob Sheffield Opposite direction Copy Share Image
“Her universe is such a big place full of so many galaxies-100 billion of them with 100 billion stars apiece which means… — Rob Sheffield Astronomy Copy Share Image
Our amour fou with 'The Sopranos' is headed for long-term parking, like so many of its most memorable characters. We'll never see… — Rob Sheffield Amour Copy Share Image
“But for me, if we're talking about romance, cassettes wipe the floor with MP3s. This has nothing to do with superstition, or… — Rob Sheffield Bad time Copy Share Image
