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Celebrity despicability is a precious thing.
But the answer is simple. Love is a mix tape.
I'd shut the whole world down just to tell you.
I didn't know what I was. I didn't have a noun.
When you stick a song on a tape, you set it free.
Monogamous musicians are like vegan hockey players.
You can't beat the beehive for glam punkette attitude.
Why are Franz Ferdinand the perfect live band? They just are.
Rock stars did not invent burning out. They just do it louder.
I had no voice to talk with because she was my whole language.
Girls take up a lot of room. I had a lot of room for this one.
But bringing people together is what music has always done best.
There are all kinds of mix tapes. There is always a reason to make one.
Every American wants a clean slate, but nobody wants to lose what they've got.
Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they add up to the story of life.
The hungry feeling and the lonely feeling merged until it was hard to tell them apart.
If the girls keep dancing, everybody's happy. If the girls don't dance, nobody's happy.
It's always that one song that gets to you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you.
When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.
A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.
It takes only one bad amp to turn your ears to oatmeal: That's how old hippies became Yanni fans.
Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.
Like most fans of 'So You Think You Can Dance,' I wouldn't know a pasodoble if it beat me with a rake.
One of Renee's friends asked her, "Does your boyfriend wear glasses?" She said, "No, he wears a Walkman.
I realize that I will never fully understand the millions of bizarre ways that music brings people together.
Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever.
Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing.
Sometimes great tunes happen to bad times, and when the bad time is over, not all the tunes get to move on with you.
One of the billions of things I love about Beyonce: The harder she tries to come on crazy, the less crazy she sounds.
Nothing connects to the moment like music. I count the music to bring me back, or more precisely, to bring her forward.
'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.
Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up for me.
Morrissey was my Mrs. Garrett, the house mother from the Facts of Life, a soothing adult figure giving me words of wisdom.
It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing.
'I'll Tumble 4 Ya' has to be one of the most ridiculous hit singles that any international superstars have given the world.
We all get as miserable as Erika M. Andersen sometimes, but we rarely approach her musical-ideas-per-miserable-minute ratio.
But the rhythm of the mix tape is the rhythm of romance, the analog hum of a physical connection between two sloppy, human bodies.
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.
'Drive,' that's the one. I love dozens of songs by R.E.M., but that's the one, even though it took me 7 or 8 years to start liking it.
One nice thing about growing up Catholic is it makes you open-minded about other people's religions, since ours is nuttier than yours.
In my headphones, I led a life of romance and incident and intrigue, none of which had anything to do with the world outside my Walkman.
Falling in love with Renee was not the kind of thing you walk away from in one piece. I had no chance. She put a hitch in my git-a-long.
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.
Donna Summer would be remembered as a ground-breaking artist today even if she'd retired the day after she recorded 'I Feel Love' in 1977.
Thanks for existing, R.E.M. It's hard to overstate how much these guys changed everything, creating an entire rock audience in their own image.
I've built my whole life around loving music. I'm a writer for 'Rolling Stone,' so I am constantly searching for new bands and soaking up new sounds.
It was like trying to break up with the color orange, or Wednesday, or silent e. It was the most passionate and tumultuous relationship I'd ever known.
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.
'Revenge' is a shameless soap in the style of Eighties shoulder-pad slap-offs like 'Dallas,' 'Dynasty' and 'Falcon Crest.' Yet there's no wink-wink camp.
Our amour fou with 'The Sopranos' is headed for long-term parking, like so many of its most memorable characters. We'll never see a show like this again.