Chuck Eddy Quotes

• Ever wonder why people are so determined to reach for white picket fences, supposed normalcy, a nuclear family? Well, try growing up without one.

  Chuck Eddy

  Growing Up, Divorce, White

  Chuck Eddy (2011). “Rock and Roll Always Forgets: A Quarter Century of Music Criticism”, p.205, Duke University Press

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• Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.

  Chuck Eddy

  Rocks, Band, Prime

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• AC/DC has lived the dumbness that the Ramones have only faked all these years.

  Chuck Eddy

  Years, Ramones, Dumbness

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• Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to overrate his pipes.

  Chuck Eddy

  School, Hawthorne, Meticulous

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• If I am thinking the same as everyone why bother pushing to get it published?

  Chuck Eddy

  Thinking, Pushing, Bother

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• I'm that grumpy old guy yelling at all those pesky little Grizzly Bear fans to get offa my lawn.

  Chuck Eddy

  Yelling, Guy, Fans

  Chuck Eddy (2011). “Rock and Roll Always Forgets: A Quarter Century of Music Criticism”, p.325, Duke University Press

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• Gary Allan has long been one of country's most reliably velvet-voiced beautiful losers.

  Chuck Eddy

  Beautiful, Country, Long

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• Critics should stick to their convictions.

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  Sticks, Conviction, Should

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• By the late '80s, I was already giving up on rap music.

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  Giving Up, Rap, Late

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• No band on 21st-century radio has mined pre-grunge hair-metal's sleaze like L.A.'s Buckcherry. So it makes poetic sense that they'd spend their sixth album tallying all seven deadly sins.

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  Hair Metal, Radio, Albums

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• I like critics with strong opinions.

  Chuck Eddy

  Strong, Strong Opinions, Opinion

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• Music critics are part of the world, and I am part of the world.

  Chuck Eddy

  World, Critics

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