Rob Sheffield Quotes

“The hungry feeling and the lonely feeling merged until it was hard to tell them apart.”

“But bringing people together is what music has always done best.”

“What doesn't kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and full of yourself at the same time. The more pain, the more pompous you get. Whatever doesn't kill you makes you incredibly annoying”

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

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

“But the answer is simple. Love is a mix tape.”

“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.”

“Love dies in many different ways, and it's natural for the grass to seem greener on the other side. But it's not a competition; there's plenty of pain to go around.”

“It's always that one song that gets to you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you.”

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

“Tonight, I feel like my whole body is made out of memories. I'm a mix-tape, a cassette that's been rewound so many times you can hear the fingerprints smudged on the tape.”

“Nothing connects to the moment like music. I count the music to bring me back, or more precisely, to bring her forward.”

“When you stick a song on a tape, you set it free.”

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

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

“Sometimes great tunes happen to bad times, and when the bad time is over, not all the tunes get to move on with you.”

“I didn't know what I was. I didn't have a noun.”

“Girls take up a lot of room. I had a lot of room for this one.”

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

“… some people aren't worth the trouble of being kind to, because they have neither the brains nor the power to make something for themselves out of your kindness.”

“Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they add up to the story of life.”

“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.”