Quotes by Rob Sheffield

“Its the same with people who say, Whatever doesnt kill you makes you stronger. Even people who say this must realize that the exact opposite is true. What doesnt kill you maims you, cripples you, l...”

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

“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....”

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

“Irish people marry late, as a rule. We have that potato-famine DNA from the old country, that mentality where you don't give birth to anything until you have the potatoes all stored up to feed it. ...”

“And being a husband made me helpless, because I had somebody to protect (somebody a little high-strung, who had a tough time emotionally with things like the lights going out indefinitely).”

“There are all kinds of mix tapes. there is always a reason to make one.”

“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,...”

“I get sentimental over the music of the 90s. Deplorable, really. But I love it all. As far as Im concerned the 90s was the best era for music ever, even the stuff that I loathed at the time, even t...”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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 stor...”

“We couldn't believe how exciting it was to be together, a pair of young Americruisers on a roll. We'd lived for just twenty-five years; we weren't planning to die for fifty more. We danced and dran...”

“The songs were all either fast or sad. Because all songs should be either fast or sad.”

“That Jim Morrison song gets it all wrong. People are strange when youre a stranger, but its not because they ignore youits when they notice you and smile, thats when you realize youre alone out her...”

“Theres only the one, see. When you fall in love with a girl, shes the bloody White Album. That is what you whisper to yourself, when you dont understand her at all. You just keep telling yourself, ...”

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

“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.”