Nick Hornby Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.

  Nick Hornby

  Music, Song, Pain

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.36, Penguin

• Because music, like color, or a cloud, is neither intelligent nor unintelligent - it just is. The chord, the simplest building block for even the tritest, silliest chart song, is a beautiful, perfect, mysterious thing, and when an ill-read, uneducated, uncultured, emotionally illiterate boor puts a couple of them together, he has every chance of creating something wonderful and powerful. All I ask of music is that is sounds good.

  Nick Hornby

  Beautiful, Song, Couple

  Nick Hornby (2003). “31 songs”, Viking Books

• And mostly all I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, and force other people to listen to them, and get cross when these other people don't like them as much as I do.

  Nick Hornby

  Song, People, Want

  Nick Hornby (2003). “Songbook”, p.6, Penguin

• The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I do know that they've been listening to the sad songs longer than they've been living the unhappy lives.

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  Song, People, Listening

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.36, Penguin

• It's just that none of us had the wit or talent to make them into songs. We made them into life, which much messier, and more time consuming, and leaves nothing for anybody to whistle.

  Nick Hornby

  Song, Talent, Made

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.143, Penguin

• The truth about autobiographical songs, he realized, was that you had to make the present become the past, somehow: you had to take a feeling or a friend or a woman and turn whatever it was into something that was over, so that you could be definitive about it. You had to put it in a glass case and look at it and think about it until it gave up its meaning.

  Nick Hornby

  Song, Past, Thinking

• I'd like my life to be like a Bruce Springsteen song. Just once. I know I'm not born to run, I know that Seven Sisters' Road is nothing like Thunder Road, but feelings can't be different, can they?

  Nick Hornby

  Running, Song, Feelings

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.169, Penguin

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