There are all kinds of mix tapes. there is always a reason to make one. — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“You Like Music, I Like Music, I Can Tell We’re Going to Be Friends” — Rob Sheffield Friends Copy Share Image
“I still haven't finished unpacking - by the time I do, it'll be time to move again.” — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“Some of us are born Gladys Knights, and some of us are born Pips.” — Rob Sheffield Knights 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
But the rhythm of the mix tape is the rhythm of romance, the analog hum of a physical connection between two sloppy,… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“Don't charge the mound. Once you agree to fight, you lost already. Don't start none, won't be none.” — Rob Sheffield Fight 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
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?"… — Rob Sheffield 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
Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up… — Rob Sheffield 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
When I was a junior, my school introduced badminton, which was clearly a P.E. department ploy to get me away from the… — Rob Sheffield Badminton Copy Share Image
It's easy to see why 'American Horror' is freaking people out. The ultraviolent hallucinations never pause long enough to make sense. In… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“We had nothing in common, except we both loved music. It was the first connection we had, and we depended on it… — Rob Sheffield Connection 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
“Love hurts. Love stinks. Love bites, love bleeds, love is the drug. The troubadours of our times all agree: They want to… — Rob Sheffield Love Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you lie in a strange room, in a strange person’s home, and you feel yourself bending out of shape. Melting, touching… — Rob Sheffield 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
God bless America - what other civilization would give Patrick Dempsey another shot to rule as a sex symbol, twenty years after… — Rob Sheffield America Copy Share Image
“Did I learn anything? No way. But all the things you want to learn from grief turn out to be the total… — Rob Sheffield Death 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 Karaoke Copy Share Image
“I suck at fighting. I have never really learned how to talk and be mad at the same time. If I have… — Rob Sheffield Angry words Copy Share Image
“I have built my entire life around loving music, and I surround myself with it. I’m always racing to catch up on… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“Neither of us ever threw anything away. We made a lot of mix tapes while we were together. Tapes for making out,… — Rob Sheffield Falling asleep Copy Share Image
“By the time you're an adult, you're used to seeing your friends disappear into their five-year plans. They drop out to get… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
It’s the same with people who say, ‘Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’ Even people who say this must realize that… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“I thought, there is nowhere else in the universe I would rather be at this moment... There is nowhere else I could… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“I was helpless in trying to return people's kindness, but also helpless to resist it. Kindness is a scarier force than cruelty,… — Rob Sheffield Compassion Copy Share Image
“Trying to live in the past didn't work for me, and it's only now that I fully realize I'm incredibly lucky it… — Rob Sheffield Happy memories Copy Share Image
“Before I met Maria, I was your basic craven hermit. I spent most of my time in my room, in love with… — Rob Sheffield English major Copy Share Image
“Last fall, I was sitting at the kitchen table of two friends who have been together since 1972. They tell me a… — Rob Sheffield Halloween party 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 Copy Share Image
“At Camp Don Bosco, there were Bibles all over the place, mostly 1970s hippie versions like Good News for Modern Man. They… — Rob Sheffield Bible Copy Share Image
“Don't go home with that magic man! I wanted to shake my Walkman, warn the Heart girls to run away. Don't trust… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“ Roller Boogie is a relic from - when else? - the '70s. This is a tape I made for the eight-grade… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
