Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life: A Book by and for the Fanatics Among Us Quotes

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This was one of those mid-thirties moments when you take a look at the stale, half-chewed bagel your life has become and kiss jealousy on its smokey mouth.

Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life: A Book by and for the Fanatics Among Us

All language is an aspiration to music.

Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life: A Book by and for the Fanatics Among Us

Misery loves another idiot with a jukebox where his soul should be.

Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life: A Book by and for the Fanatics Among Us

It's like this when you fall hard for a musician. It's a crush with religious overtones. You listen to the songs and you memorize the words and the notes and this is a form of prayer. You attend the shows and this is the liturgy. You're interested in...

Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life: A Book by and for the Fanatics Among Us

The connection being that in my head all language began in song and that the best stories inevitably reutrn to song, to a state of rapture. For years, I had assumed that throwing beautiful words at the page would make my prose feel true. But I had th...

Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life: A Book by and for the Fanatics Among Us

Music has become more pervasive and portable than ever. But it feels less previous in the bargain. I don't want to confuse artistic and commercial value, but it's just a fact that some kid who rips an album for free isn't going to give it the same at...

Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life: A Book by and for the Fanatics Among Us