Collections Quote by Robert Christgau Download Open image “I love collections. I got into journalism with the idea that I'd be doing them.” — Robert Christgau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Collections I love Journalism Love
The collection is a labor of love and devotion, and whenever I found free time from my journalism work, I'd work on one story… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
For me, more than general box-office collections, what really matters is that I am doing something that I enjoy and love. — Varun Dhawan Copy Share Image
I read individual stories a lot in magazines and other places, too, but I really think there's something to be said for reading story… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
All my collections are based on something I like or something I'm dealing with. They are always deeply personal. — Kerby Jean-Raymond Copy Share Image
I only do what I do. For me, it is a craft. It's got to be my own thing - otherwise, I would never… — Francisco Costa Copy Share Image
I loved being just one of 11 newspaper majors at my college, immersing myself in the age-old art of news-gathering. — Mary Katharine Ham Copy Share Image
I collect and read as many books about music and film as I do fiction. — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
All my collections are very personal. It's also because I'm so involved in making the collections. — Dries van Noten Copy Share Image
All of the collections I've done have been so much fun. The more knowledge and the more education I can get the better the… — Whitney Port Copy Share Image
Collections aren't really planned. I just keep writing short pieces until I have enough for a collection. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
I'm fortunate in having journalism as a sideline to pay the bills, and I essentially do it in order to take as long as… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
The idea with a collection is sort of to begin with a kind of bang. — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
People believe that criticism should be objective, whatever that means, but I really don't understand what people mean by that. I guess if you're… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
“One concept the non-old have trouble getting their minds around is the difference between taste and judgment. It's fine not to like almost anything, except maybe Al Green. That's taste, yours to do with as you please, critical deployment included. By comparison, judgment requires serious psychological calisthenics. But the fact that objectivity only comes naturally in math doesn't mean it… — Robert Christgau Copy Share
You know, criticism began as the province of amateurs, of wealthy men who liked the arts. — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
I believe that writing on music is experienced inside your head, is not a physically present in the world, it has a different kind… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
Chuck Berry's 'Maybellene' hit the airwaves at about the time Alan Freed got to New York, and it was definitely a song I really… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
I don't think it's such a bad idea that people learn the same history in school. I think it tends to ground people and… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
My wife is more important to me than anything in the world - including music. She's a great editor and companion for all of… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
You can only adjust to so much history in your life. I still have trouble texting. — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
I've always been a jazz fan, but I don't write much about jazz, because I don't have the chops. But it's really, really hard… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
There's a musicologist named Peter van der Merwe whose theory is that the blues generates tune families, and that their similarity to each other… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
Anyway, you know, when Richard Meltzer said rock and roll died in '68, what he means is Jefferson Airplane were no longer his buddies,… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
Life is a collection of moments. Mindfulness is beautification of the moments. — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
Hercules used noise! Brass bells! He scared them away with the most horrible sound he could-" said Percy "Percy... Chiron's collection! — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
MAC allowed me to have complete freedom on the collaborations—from the shades, the look-and-feel, to the campaign visuals. I have to admit that the… — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
I took a wrong turn on the way to the bathroom and found myself in a beautifully proportioned room I had never seen before, containing a really rather magnificent collection of chamberpots. When I went back to investigate more closely, I discovered that the room had vanished. But I must keep an eye out for it. Possibly it is only… — Anonymous Copy Share
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so composed, so full of wisdom, that we are able to take in at once the whole scope of a work according to its merits. Do we not mark in a book passages which seem to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
This is an extraordinary illustrated collection of Chinese herbsaccompanied by concise and expert comments. Jing-Nuan Wu has succeeded incompiling this most unique and informative… — Koji Nakanishi Copy Share Image
I have a large watch collection, and classic watches are especially important to me. I had a silver Rolex, and I actually gave it… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than documentary. — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
Who wrote the Bible? Current scholarship, to my knowledge, assumes that the material that constitutes the Old Testament was put together from various oral… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I've had plenty of jo-jobs. Nothing I'd call a career. Let me put it this way. I have an extensive collection of name tags… — Wayne Campbell Copy Share Image
The benefit of writing a collection - as opposed to a novel - is that I'm able to have some version of the war… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
Museums do not share their collections with other museums unless they get something in exchange. The Metropolitan will deal with the Louvre, but will… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
