Jennifer Egan Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• The answers were maddeningly absent—it was like trying to remember a song that you knew made you feel a certain way, without a title, artist, or even a few bars to bring it back.

  Jennifer Egan

  Song, Artist, Trying

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.253, Anchor

• The pause makes you think the song will end. And then the song isn't really over, so you're relieved. But then the song does actually end, because every song ends, obviously, and THAT. TIME. THE. END. IS. FOR. REAL.

  Jennifer Egan

  Music, Song, Real

• I think, for one thing, all of us remember those teenage years and those songs that we fell in love with and the music scene that we were part of. So, in a certain way, music cuts through time like almost nothing else. You know, it makes us feel like we're back in an earlier moment.

  Jennifer Egan

  Love, Song, Teenage

  Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. Jul 1, 2010.

• Music and time have such an interesting relationship. Music makes time fall away like almost nothing else. You hear a song from another moment of your life and it really is like you're still there. That's why the music of our youth ends up being particularly powerful. The coming of age music that you grab a hold of as the symbol or the expression of your independence and hopes for the future and anger and rebellion or whatever it is you're feeling is so powerful for the rest of your life when you hear it.

  Jennifer Egan

  Song, Powerful, Fall

  "Jennifer Egan’s Novel Approach". Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. May 27, 2010.

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