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Robert Hilburn

(1939) Writer United States

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Robert Hilburn is a writer from the United States, best known for Paul Simon.

Quick Facts About Robert Hilburn

Born: September 25, 1939
Nationality: United States
Profession: Writer
Notable works: Paul Simon

About Robert Hilburn

Robert Hilburn is an American pop music critic, editor, author, and radio host. The chief pop music critic and pop music editor at the Los Angeles Times for more than 30 years, he has written five books, including a memoir and biographies of Johnny Cash, Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen and Randy Newman.

Biography source: Wikipedia

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It's a different world because of the Internet and bloggers. Now, every editor is concerned about speed because every minute counts. Speed…

Authority

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I don't want to be the cranky old guy, but a lot of critics are too forgiving of mediocre artists. When you…

American

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The greatest impact of 'We Are the World' seems to have been the video, which lets us see the singers take their…

Ego

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There was a lot of sorrow in [Johnny] Cash's life. Even while he's trying to make music to inspire people he's fighting…

Cash

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I thought I pretty much knew Johnny Cash's life. But one of my personal discoveries was how little we know about any…

Cash

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Me growing up in the '60s and '70s, there was almost something romantic about drugs, Keith Richards taking drugs and stuff.

Drug

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I think it is hard to find happiness, as a whole, in anything. The days of tender youth are gone. I think…

Delirious

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Elvis may have been my first hero, but you couldn't relate to him.

Elvis

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At the 'L.A. Times,' I always wanted to write about artists I thought were meaningful. So I interviewed Bob Dylan, John Lennon,…

Always

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I really thought I knew Johnny Cash. I thought I didn't need to spend a lot of time researching his life. But…

Artist

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Growing up in the icy isolation of Hibbing, Minn., Dylan, who was still Robert Allen Zimmerman then, found comfort in the country,…

Comfort

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Johnny Cash was a good man. He tried to live up to his faith. It was just difficult.

Faith

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Kendrick Lamar is a great, great thinker. He's a tremendous artist.

Art

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I first met Michael in the early days of the Jackson 5 at the family home in Los Angeles, and the memory…

Cute

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Country music is full of affairs and cheating; that's where all those Hank Williams songs come from.

Affair

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Take any celebrity - all we really know is what they choose to tell us or what they show us in public.

Celebrity

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Courtney Love is so famous among journalists for her loquaciousness that the joke is that you don't have to worry about questions…

Famous

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I think Pearl Jam, greatly inspired by The Who, really did become a sort of musical conscience of a generation. I love…

Conscience

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“Bono and Clayton had such a great time that the band paid homage to Cash in their Rattle and Hum album package…

Time

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I don't understand why people take Beyonce so seriously. You don't feel like there's a living, breathing person. It's not flesh and…

Blood

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When I met Johnny Cash, I didn't know what to ask: where were you born, who was your favorite recording artist, what's…

Art

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“Cash said he was someone “made up of bad parts but was trying to do good.”

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There's not a great danger in releasing the first single from an album without a video because the momentum from the last…

Fans

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I learned how difficult it is to be an artist. There are always compromises. The record company wants you to do this,…

Art

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