Rob Sheffield Quotes

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

Rob Sheffield

Music, Death, Song

Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.217, Crown Archetype

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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, and they can add up to the story of a life.

Rob Sheffield

Music, Jobs, Memories

Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.26, Crown Archetype

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

Rob Sheffield

Song, Sheffield

Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.13, Crown Archetype

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If all music did was bring the past alive, that would be fine. You can hide away in music and let it recapture memories of things that used to be.
But music is greedy and it wants more of your heart than that. It demands the future, your future. Music wants the rest of your life. So you can't rest easy.
At any moment, a song can come out of nowhere to shake you up, jump-start your emotions, ruin your life.

Rob Sheffield

Song, Memories, Heart

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

Rob Sheffield

People, Together, Done

Rob Sheffield (2010). “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut”, p.16, Penguin

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Every moment of my life has a soundtrack, so I never know when some song is going to jump me by surprise and bring the memory alive.

Rob Sheffield

Song, Memories, Alive

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

Rob Sheffield

Song, Moments, Right Now

Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.90, Crown Archetype

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Unlike me, Renee was not shy; she was a real people-pleaser. She worried way too much what people thought of her, wore her heart on her sleeve, expected too much from people, and got hurt too easily. She kept other people's secrets like a champ, but told her own too fast. She expected the world not to cheat her and was always surprised when it did.

Rob Sheffield

Hurt, Real, Heart

Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.66, Crown Archetype

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

Rob Sheffield

Music, Tape, Kind

Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.17, Crown Archetype

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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.

Rob Sheffield

Stuff, Eras, Sentimental

Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.7, Crown Archetype

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

Rob Sheffield

Together, Add, Tape

Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.26, Crown Archetype

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I realize that I will never fully understand the millions of bizarre ways that music brings people together.

Rob Sheffield

People, Together, Way

Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time”, Crown

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Being a pop fan is a lot like Catholic devotion - lots of ritual, lots of ceremony... We touch the icon to enter the sacred space, genuflecting to reliquaries and ostentatoria that make something splendid of our most secret desires and agonies.

Rob Sheffield

Agony, Icons, Space

Rob Sheffield (2010). “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut”, p.118, Penguin

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

Rob Sheffield

Simple, Love Is, Tape

"Love is a Mix Tape". Book by Rob Sheffield, 2007.

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But the rhythm of the mix tape is the rhythm of romance, the analog hum of a physical connection between two sloppy, human bodies.

Rob Sheffield

Two, Romance, Connections

Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.218, Crown Archetype

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

Rob Sheffield

Moving, Tunes, Sometimes

Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.198, Crown Archetype

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When I was a junior, my school introduced badminton, which was clearly a P.E. department ploy to get me away from the wrestling room, and it worked, since the first time I played badminton was like the first time I tasted sushi or heard the Beatles or read Wordsworth. This was a sport? This counted for gym requirements?

Rob Sheffield

Sports, School, Wrestling

Rob Sheffield (2010). “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut”, p.37, Penguin

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Seeing Taylor Swift live in 2013 is seeing a maestro at the top of her or anyone's game. No other pop auteur can touch her right now for emotional excess or musical reach - her punk is so punk, her disco is so disco. The red sequins on her guitar match the ones on her microphone, her shoes and 80 percent of the crowd.

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Emotional, Guitar, Games

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Not being able to protect her from things was the most frightening thing I'd ever felt, and it kicked in as soon as we got together. With every year we spent together, I became more conscious that I now had an infinitely expanding number of reasons to be afraid. I had something to lose.

Rob Sheffield

Numbers, Years, Together

Rob Sheffield (2010). “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut”, p.151, Penguin

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'The Voice' has lots of singers who fit the 'Idol' mold of young, innocent ingenues with psycho stage moms. But it also has long-suffering adult pros, with a whiff of thirtysomething despair in their voices. That adds an edge of realness.

Rob Sheffield

Mom, Idols, Voice

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Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning.

Rob Sheffield

Song, Morning, Mp3

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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 lyrics.

Rob Sheffield

Girl, Strong, Boys

Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.30, Crown Archetype

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

Rob Sheffield

Girl, Rooms

Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.66, Crown Archetype

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

Rob Sheffield

Music, Song, Tape

Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.24, Crown Archetype

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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.

Rob Sheffield

Cute, Girl, Song

Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time”, Crown

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