Books Quote by Robert Christgau

“Popular music is not history, but it can be read historically, dialogically, and symptomatically to produce valuable evidence about change over time. Popular music…

— George Lipsitz

I love the history of popular music. I love to know what people are listening to, even if I don't like it.

— Tim Rice

My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand.

— Stephen Hawking

I don't retain facts very well when it comes to music history.

— Lucy Dacus

All my books are about one major idea and two or three subsidiary ones. I have thought a lot about music when constructing books,…

— Sebastian Faulks

My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First…

— Elliott Carter

It's very important to me that I at least know the history of the music.

— Trombone Shorty

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that…

— Ahmet Zappa

The ones that were relevant while I wrote my book were books like "Beloved" by Toni Morrison, which is based on a historical fact,…

— Laila Lalami

“Historical fiction isn't history in the conventional sense and shouldn't be judged as such. The best historical novels are loyal to history, but it…

— Daniel Aaron

You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.

— William Landay

I had always had an affinity for series in literature, and I thought it would be really cool to incorporate what I loved about…

— Dawn Richard