Quotes by Rob Sheffield

About Rob Sheffield:

Rob Sheffield is an American music journalist and author.
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You can't beat the beehive for glam punkette attitude.

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It's kind of amazing how popular 'Grey's Anatomy' is. What other show can boast such an annoyingly sincere cast of doctors, sniveling through such perfunctory love triangles?

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'Buncha Losers' comedy is one of those homegrown American art forms, up there with infomercials and Elvis-shaped soap carvings. No other civilization could have invented it. The French took a stab with Sartre's 'No Exit,' but then they had to ruin it...

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It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing.

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The dilemma of the eighth-grade dance is that boys and girls use music in different ways. Girls enjoy music they can dance to, music with strong vocals and catchy melodies. Boys, on the other hand, enjoy music they can improve by making up filthy new...

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When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.

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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?" I long to live out this moment in real life.

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Jesus H. Christ on ice and Mary in the penalty box!

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The way I pictured it, all this grief would be like a winter night when you're standing outside. You'll warm up once you get used to the cold. Except after you've been out there for awhile, you feel the warmth draining out of you and you realize the ...

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The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with — nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, ...

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Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.

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It’s the same with people who say, ‘Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’ Even people who say this must realize that the exact opposite is true. What doesn’t kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and fu...

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I'd shut the whole world down just to tell you

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I had no voice to talk with because she was my whole language. Without her to talk to, there was nothing to say.

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I get sentimental over the music of the ’90s. Deplorable, really. But I love it all. As far as I’m concerned the ’90s was the best era for music ever, even the stuff that I loathed at the time, even the stuff that gave me stomach cramps.

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One of Renee's friends asked her, "Does your boyfriend wear glasses?" She said, "No, he wears a Walkman.

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A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.

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bitch power is the juice, the sweat, the blood that keeps pop music going. Rick James helped me understand the lesson of the eighth-grade dance: Bitch power rules the world. If the girls don't like the music, they sit down and stop the show. You gott...

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I was totally clueless about social interaction, and completely scared of girls. All I knew was that music was going to make girls fall in love with me.

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I've never heard of anybody getting rid of their prized Exile postcards, much less actually writing on them and sending them through the mail to a girl. I watched these two, laughing over this story at the same kitchen table they've shared for thirty...

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Author Bio

  • NameRob Sheffield
  • DescriptionAmerican music journalist
  • BornFebruary 2, 1966
  • ProfessionJournalist; Writer