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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm struck by things, I want to hear more and find out more. I remember when Lana Del Rey was on 'SNL,' this supposedly disastrous performance. She's doing this pretentious torch song, and I thought, 'I don't know what she's doing, but it's really moving me.'
- Caring
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- Nov 07, 2020
My ideal reader is somebody who trips over a copy of my book on the sidewalk; then they pick it up and read as they walk. Somebody who comes in knowing nothing, caring nothing, but responds to the story.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you celebrate somebody's bad work on the terms that define their good work, how can that artist have anything but contempt for an audience that can't tell the good from the bad?
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
After Chuck Berry died, it seemed web sites popped up like mushrooms to show where he'd taken the guitar introduction to 'Johnny B. Goode' from to prove that his music was nothing new, that it was only ignorance, or vanity, that led his listeners to think that not only was the music different - they might be, too.
- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps the most pernicious strain of contemporary criticism says one thing before it says anything else, says it to whatever historical event or cultural happenstance is supposedly at issue: 'You can't fool me.'
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think criticism, or a critical engagement with history, has a good deal to do with a willingness to be fooled.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know that there's a division between American and British, European, South American, Asian sensibilities when it comes to rock n' roll or, really, any form of music. Songs travel, and people take them into their lives in all different kinds of unpredictable and really untraceable ways.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Money Changes Everything' is this terribly despairing, heartbreaking song.
- Gun
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- Nov 07, 2020
Buddy Holly had something very different from the other great early rock n' roll stars, whether it was Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Bo Diddley. He came across as so ordinary, as such a nerd. You know, he was a big guy, and he carried a gun. He was anything but a nerd.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was an American Studies student at Berkeley as an undergraduate, and pretty much as a graduate student, too.
- Crushing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's never been a Van Morrison album that I haven't immediately listened to, whether with delight or crushing disappointment.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very lucky when you have an artist - whether it's a novelist or a filmmaker or a singer - whose career you can follow from the beginning and feel that you are in some way part of it, or part of the same world that it comes out of.
- Great Sense
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- Nov 07, 2020
People write memoirs - this is my take, anyway - out of a great sense of self-importance.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020