Rob Sheffield Quotes

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• Singing what's in your heart? Naming the things you love and loathe? You can get hurt that way. Hell, you will get hurt that way.…
• Every moment of my life has a soundtrack, so I never know when some song is going to jump me by surprise and bring the…
• 'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.
• Celebrity despicability is a precious thing.
• Donna Summer would be remembered as a ground-breaking artist today even if she'd retired the day after she recorded 'I Feel Love' in 1977.
• 'Drive,' that's the one. I love dozens of songs by R.E.M., but that's the one, even though it took me 7 or 8 years to…
• Every American wants a clean slate, but nobody wants to lose what they've got.
• 'I'll Tumble 4 Ya' has to be one of the most ridiculous hit singles that any international superstars have given the world.
• I've built my whole life around loving music. I'm a writer for 'Rolling Stone,' so I am constantly searching for new bands and soaking up…
• It takes only one bad amp to turn your ears to oatmeal: That's how old hippies became Yanni fans.
• Like most fans of 'So You Think You Can Dance,' I wouldn't know a pasodoble if it beat me with a rake.
• Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing.
• One nice thing about growing up Catholic is it makes you open-minded about other people's religions, since ours is nuttier than yours.
• Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever.
• Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning.
• We all get as miserable as Erika M. Andersen sometimes, but we rarely approach her musical-ideas-per-miserable-minute ratio.
• You can't beat the beehive for glam punkette attitude.
• But MTV relishes its vestigial role as a star maker, so every year it puts all its clout into making the VMAs the biggest, splashiest,…
• One of the best moments of any Liars show is hearing the crowd squawk 'We're doomed! We're doomed!' on cue during 'We Fenced Other Houses…
• Ronnie Spector's hair was taller and meaner and scarier than all four Shangri-La's combined, plus the drummer from the Honeycombs. You just know her rat-tail…

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