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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, Love Is a Mix Tape
A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.
— Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape
Back home, my favorite part of Mass was during communion, when I’d stand at the rail and hold a little gold platter under people’s chins. The pretty girls would line up for communion (I confess to Almighty God). They’d kneel (and to you my brothers and sisters), cast their eyes demurely down (I have sinned through my own fault), and stick out their tongues (in my thoughts and in my words). Their tongues would shine, reflected in the gold platter, and since the wafer was dry, the girls would maybe lick their lips (and I ask Blessed Mary ever virgin, all the angels and saints, and you my brothers and sisters) before they swallowed (to pray for me to the Lord our God). It was all I could do not to pass out.
— Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape
The way I pictured it, all this grief would be like a winter night when you’re standing outside. You’ll warm up once you get used to the cold. Except after you’ve been out there for awhile, you feel the warmth draining out of you and you realize the opposite is happening; you’re getting colder and colder, as the body heat you brought outside with you seeps out of your skin. Instead of getting used to it, you get weaker the longer you endure it.
— Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape
I’ve never heard of anybody getting rid of their prized Exile postcards, much less actually writing on them and sending them through the mail to a girl. I watched these two, laughing over this story at the same kitchen table they’ve shared for thirty years. I realize that I will never fully understand the millions of bizarre ways that music brings people together.
— Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape
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, Love Is a Mix Tape
I had no voice to talk with because she was my whole language. Without her to talk to, there was nothing to say.
— Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape
One of Renee’s friends asked her, “Does your boyfriend wear glasses?” She said, “No, he wears a Walkman.
— Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape
Irish people marry late, as a rule. We have that potato-famine DNA from the old country, that mentality where you don’t give birth to anything until you have the potatoes all stored up to feed it. My ancestors were all shepherds who got married in their thirties and then stayed together for life, who had long and happy marriages, no doubt because they were already deaf. My grandparents courted for nine years before they married in 1933.
— Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape
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, Love Is a Mix Tape
At Camp Don Bosco, there were Bibles all over the place, mostly 1970s hippie versions like Good News for Modern Man. They had groovy titles like The Word or The Way, and translated the Bible into “contemporary English, ” which meant Saul yelling at Jonathan, “You son of a bitch!” (I Samuel 20:30). Awesome! The King James version gave this verse as “Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman, ” which was bogus in comparison. Maybe these translations went a bit far. I recall one of the Bibles translating the inscription over the cross, “INRI” (Iesus Nazaremus Rex Iudaeorum), as “SSDD” (Same Shit Different Day), and another describing the Last Supper — the night before Jesus’ death, a death he freely accepted — where Jesus breaks the bread, gives it to his disciples, and says, “It’s better to burn out than fade away, ” but these memories could be deceptive.
— Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape
And being a husband made me helpless, because I had somebody to protect (somebody a little high-strung, who had a tough time emotionally with things like the lights going out indefinitely).
— Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape
I was totally clueless about social interaction, and completely scared of girls. All I knew was that music was going to make girls fall in love with me.
— Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape
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, Love Is a Mix Tape
….For instance, I hated Pearl Jam at the time. I thought they were pompous blowhards. Now, whenever a Pearl Jam song comes on the car radio, I find myself pounding my fist on the dashboard, screaming, “Pearl JAM! Pearl JAM! Now this is rock and roll! Jeremy’s SPO-ken! But he’s still al-LIIIIIVE!
— Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape
The songs were all either fast or sad. Because all songs should be either fast or sad.
— Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape
I’d shut the whole world down just to tell you
— Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape
When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.
— Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape
It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing.
— Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape
It’s the same with people who say, ‘Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’ Even people who say this must realize that the exact opposite is true. What doesn’t kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and full of yourself at the same time. The more pain, the more pompous you get. Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you incredibly annoying.
— Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape
bitch power is the juice, the sweat, the blood that keeps pop music going. Rick James helped me understand the lesson of the eighth-grade dance: Bitch power rules the world. If the girls don’t like the music, they sit down and stop the show. You gotta have a crowd if you wanna have a show. And the girls are the show. We’re talking absolute monarchy, with no rules of succession. Bitch power. She must be obeyed. She must be feared.
— Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape
Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.
— Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape
There are all kinds of mix tapes. there is always a reason to make one.
— Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape
On the way we talked about the road sign Bridge Ices Before Road. I always wondered, If that’s a problem, why don’t they just build the bridge out of the same stuff they use to build the road? Drema explained that the bridge isn’t made out of different material than the road, but that the bridge ices quicker because it’s alone, hanging there without the land under it to keep it warm.
— Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape
We couldn’t believe how exciting it was to be together, a pair of young Americruisers on a roll. We’d lived for just twenty-five years; we weren’t planning to die for fifty more. We danced and drank and went to rock shows. Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.
— Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape
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