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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Rob Sheffield

  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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• If the girls keep dancing, everybody's happy. If the girls don't dance, nobody's happy.

  Rob Sheffield

  Girl, Dancing, Ifs

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• She was the first person on either side of her family to go to college, and she held herself to insanely high standards. She worried a lot about whether she was good enough. It was surprising to see how relieved she seemed whenever I told her how amazing she was. I wanted her to feel strong and free. She was beautiful when she was free.

  Rob Sheffield

  Beautiful, Strong, College

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.67, Crown Archetype

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• Somtimes you lie in a strange room, in a strange person's home, and you feel yourself bending out of shape. Melting, touching something hot, something that warps you in drastic and probably irreversible ways you won't get to take stock of until its too late

  Rob Sheffield

  Lying, Home, Touching

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.63, Crown Archetype

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

  Rob Sheffield

  Glasses, Your Boyfriend, Doe

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.10, 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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