All Rob Sheffield Quotes
- 'The Voice' has lots of singers who fit the 'Idol' mold of young, innocent ingenues with psycho stage moms. But it also has long-suffering adult… Add
- When I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we were living through the lamest… Angst
- When Ke$ha tries to rap like L'Trimm, she sounds like any ordinary lonely teenage girl stuck in a nowhere town, singing along to her radio… All
- You can hear the Celtic heartbeat all over Europe and America, from Bing Crosby to Jack White, from the Smiths to My Bloody Valentine, from… All
- You'd think if anyone could charm America into caring about the evening news, it would be Katie Couric, the Tri Delt from Virginia who became… America
- There are all kinds of mix tapes. there is always a reason to make one. All
- The dilemma of the eighth-grade dance is that boys and girls use music in different ways. Girls enjoy music they can dance to, music with… Boys
- When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other. Death
- I'd shut the whole world down just to tell you Down
- If the girls keep dancing, everybody's happy. If the girls don't dance, nobody's happy. Dance
- When you stick a song on a tape, you set it free. Free
- Unlike me, Renee was not shy; she was a real people-pleaser. She worried way too much what people thought of her, wore her heart on… Always Surprised
- The Word 'Repulse': I hate this word. I believe 'repel' is a perfectly good word, and 'repulsion' is the noun, as well as the title… Believe
- It's always that one song that gets to you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you. Find
- I realize that I will never fully understand the millions of bizarre ways that music brings people together. Bizarre
- But the answer is simple. Love is a mix tape. Answer
- One of Renee's friends asked her, "Does your boyfriend wear glasses?" She said, "No, he wears a Walkman. Asked
- It’s the same with people who say, ‘Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’ Even people who say this must realize that the exact opposite… Annoying
- The hungry feeling and the lonely feeling merged until it was hard to tell them apart. Apart
- Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten. Beginning
- You know the Prince song where the girl's phone rings but she tells him, "whoever's calling couldn't be as cute as you?" I long to… Calling
- I had no voice to talk with because she was my whole language. Inspirational
- I didn't know what I was. I didn't have a noun. Funny
- Love dies in many different ways, and it's natural for the grass to seem greener on the other side. But it's not a competition; there's… Competition
- A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all. All